This is a list of Southern African Rodents that I still need to see:
| Namaqua Dune Mole Rat | Cape Dune Mole Rat | Damaraland Mole Rat | |
| Cape Mole Rat | Woosnam’s Zelotomys | Dassie Rat | Greater Cane Rat |
| Shortridge’s Rat | Black-tailed Tree Rat | Mountain Ground Squirrel | Smith’s Bush Squirrel |
| Verreaux’s White-footed Rat | Small-eared Dormouse | Woodland Dormouse | Spectacled Dormouse |
| Rock Dormouse | Stone Dormouse | Barbour’s Rock Mouse | Pygmy Rock Mouse |
| Brukkaros Pygmy Rock Mouse | Gray Glimbing Mouse | Brant’s Climbing Mouse | Chestnut Climbing Mouse |
| Nyika Climbing Mouse | Gerbil Mouse | Kreb’s Fat Mouse | Fat Mouse |
| White-tailed Rat | Phascogalini | Spiny mouse | Cape Spiny Mouse |
| Angoni Vlei Rat | Vlei Rat | Laminate Vlei Rat | Saunder’s Vlei Rat |
| Sloggett’s Vlei Rat | Karoo Bush Rat | Orange Mouse | Desert Pygmy Mouse |
| Cape Short-eared Gerbil | Hairy-footed Gerbil | Bushy-tailed Hairy-footed Gerbil | Cape Gerbil |
| Highveld Gerbil | Bushveld Gerbil | Single-striped Grass Mouse | Grant’s Rock Rat |
| Tete Veld Aethomys | Natal Multimammate Mouse | Common Dasymys | Mozambique Thicket Rat |
Are voles commonly found in the western cape, South Africa?
Hi Micheal. We don’t get any voles in South Africa. We get two families of moles. The one is Golden Moles (family Chrysochloridae) of which Cape Golden Mole is fairy common in the cape, and then there are Mole-rats (Family Bathyergidae) of which there are three that are more commonly found in the Cape. These are Cape Dune Mole-rat, Cape Mole-rat and Common Mole-rat. Mole-rats are larger, around 15-30cm in length, where Golden Moles are around 10-11cm
Hi – we live in Mooi River (kzn midlands) and rescued a tiny rodent yesterday.
In a field which was being baled.
We are sure it is a vole.
Could you help identify it?
Many thanks
Vicky
Sorry Vicky. Seem to have missed your comment.
Hello, as per Vicky’s comment April 22, 2022, I have also come across a vole. At least I think it is. Staying in KZN Midlands as well. Please could you help identify?