Procavia capensis (Pallas, 1766) . Mise. Zool., p. 30.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope .

DISTRIBUTION: Syria; Lebanon; Turkey; Israel; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; NE Africa; Senegal to Somalia to N Tanzania; S Malawi to S Angola, Namibia and South Africa; isolated mountains in Algeria and Libya.

SYNONYMS: abbyssinicus, alpini, antineae, bamendae, bounhioli, buchanani, burtonii, butteri, capillosa, chiversi, cornata, coombsi, daemon, dongolanus, ebneri, ehrenbergi, elberti, erlangeri, ferrugineus, flavimaculata, goslingi, habessinicus, ituriensis, jacksoni, jayakari, johnstoni, kamerunensis, kerstingi, latastei, letabae, lopesi, luteogaster, mackinderi, marlothi, marrensis, matschiei, melfica, meneliki, minor, natalensis, naumanni, orangiae, oweni, pallida, ruficeps, reuningi, schmitzi, schultzei, scioanus, semicircularis, sharica, sinaiticus, slatini, syriaca, varians, volkmanni, waterbergensis, welwitschii, windhuki, zelotes.

COMMENTS: Includes habessinica, johnstoni, ruficeps, syriaca, and welwitschii; see Corbet (1979), Roche (1972), and Skinner and Smithers (1990:558); but see also Bothma (1971). See Olds and Shoshani (1982, Mammalian Species, 171).