Desmodilliscus braueri Wettstein, 1916 . Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 53:153.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, S of El Obeid .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Sahel savanna in N and C Sudan, N Cameroon, W Niger, N Nigeria, C Mali, N Burkina Faso (Upper Volta), Senegal, and W Mauritania (see Good, 1947; Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1986).

SYNONYMS: buchanani, fuscus .

COMMENTS: Review of distribution and geographic variation provided by Hutterer and Dieterlen (1986). A sample from Burkina Faso was reported by Gautun et al. (1985).