Heliophobius argenteocinereus Peters, 1846 . Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 11:259.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Tete (on the Zambezi River) .

DISTRIBUTION: Zimbabwe, E Zambia, and N Mozambique to Zaire, Kenya, and N Tanzania.

SYNONYMS: albifrons, angonicus, emini, kapiti, marungensis, mottoulei, pallidus Gray, 1864, robustus, spalax .

COMMENTS: Honeycutt et al. (1991:54-55) concluded that the characters used to separate H. spalax from H. argenteocinereus are due to age variation, and that the genus is monotypic. See also de Graaff (1975:2). The chromosome no. is 2n=60.