Common names: Desert Pygmy Mouse (English), Woestyndwergmuis (Afrikaans). Distribution: The geographic extent of this species’ range is largely uncertain, owing to the confusion with M. minutoides (Lamb et al. 2014). However, based on molecular grounds, it has been confirmed from three widely separated localities across South Africa and Botswana, suggesting that it has a wide distribution across the arid and semi-arid regions of southern Africa (Lamb et al. 2014). Although its range was previously suggested to extend into northeastern Namibia, southwestern Zambia, western Zimbabwe and southern Angola, no records of this species were confirmed from these regions by Lamb et al. (2014). It is possible that the previous records from southwestern Angola and Namibia belong exclusively to the species M. sybilla (previously recognised as a subspecies of M. indutus; Meester et al. 1986).