This comprehensive handbook covers all the rodents occurring in Southern, Central, East and West Africa, south of the Sahara. Genus and species accounts include diagnostic descriptions, systematics and taxonomy, biogeographical environment, fossil species, photographs of skull and mandible, illustrations of molar dentition, photographs of live animals, distribution maps and tables of standard museum measurements.

Ara Monadjem, University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland; Peter John Taylor, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, Republic of South Africa, Christiane Denys, Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Fenton P.D. Cotterill, University of Stellenbosh, Republic of South Africa.