Common names: Pouched Mouse, Southern African Pouched Mouse (English), Wangsakmuis (Afrikaans). Distribution: This species occurs extensively across the savannahs of southern Africa (Monadjem et al. 2015), and is present within southwestern Tanzania, Angola (Crawford-Cabral 1998), Zambia, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia (although they are absent along the coast and in the south), Swaziland and South Africa. Generally, their range extends from 50 m to about 2,000 m asl.