Steatomys pratensis Peters, 1846 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 258.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, on the Zambezi River, Tete .

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroun to S. Sudan, south to Transvaal, Natal, and perhaps E. Orange Free State (South Africa).

COMMENT: Includes bocagei, gazellae, and opimus; see Coetzee, 1977, Part 6.8:1-2, who also included caurinus and jacksoni in this species, but Swanepoel and Schütter, 1978, in Schütter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 53-76, considered caurinus and jacksoni distinct species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008110009001 as S. pratensis .

5301410008110002001 as S. bocagei .

5301410008110005001 as S. gazellae .