Saccostomus campestris Peters, 1846 . Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 11:258.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Tete Dist., Zambezi River, Tete .

DISTRIBUTION: Broadly occurring in arid to mesic southern savannahs and grasslands: from SW Tanzania across to C Angola; south through most of Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia; to S Mozambique and Cape Province, South Africa.

SYNONYMS: anderssoni, angolae, elegans, fuscus, hildae, lapidarius, limpopoensis, mashonae, pagei, streeteri .

COMMENTS: A composite of two or more species as suggested by extraordinary chromosomal variation (Gordon, 1986; Gordon and Rautenbach, 1980); the status of anderssoni and mashonae especially deserves attention in regard to campestris proper.