Desmodillus auricularis (Smith, 1834) . S. Afr. Quart. J., Ser. 2, 2:160.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Little Namaqualand, Kamiesberg (Meester et al., 1986) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (Cape Prov., SW Orange Free State, SW Transvaal), S Botswana, and Namibia (see Skinner and Smithers, 1990).

SYNONYMS: brevicaudatus, caffer, hoeschi, pudicus, robertsi, shortridgei, wolfi.

COMMENTS: Taxonomy and geographic distribution summarized by Meester et al. (1986). Ecology and distribution reviewed by Griffin (1990).