Abundance: 0.06 to 100.00% (median 44.42%)

Latitudinal range: -26.0° to 16.6°

Habitats: (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (2), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (1), tropical/subtropical savanna (19)

Found in 23 samples

Botswana: Mokolodi Nature Reserve

Chad: Zakouma National Park (trap line A), Zakouma National Park (trap line B), Zakouma National Park (trap line C), Zakouma National Park (trap line D)

Ethiopia: Alatish National Park (wooded grassland), Hagere Selam (low stone bund density), Hagere Selam (high stone bund density), Chebera Churchura National Park (grassland), Chebera Churchura National Park (agricultural field)

Ghana: Gyemira Forest Reserve

Kenya: Lake Nakuru National Park, Mpala Research Centre, Asembo

Mauritania: Chott Boul (wire-mesh BTS traps), Chott Boul (Sherman traps)

Niger: Niamey

Senegal: Dielmo

Sierra Leone: Saama (Site 4)

South Africa: Plovers Lake (Late Pleistocene)

Tanzania: Usevia Open Area (1998), Sokoine University of Agriculture

Zambia: Lusaka (south area, 2011)

See also Mastomys awashensis, Mastomys erythroleucus, Mastomys huberti, Mastomys kollmannspergeri, Mastomys natalensis, Mastomys sp.