Acomys spinosissimus Peters, 1852 . Reise nach Mossambique, Säugeth., p. 160.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Tette and Buio .

DISTRIBUTION: NE Tanzania (Amani; series in the National Museum of Natural History) and EC Tanzania, (Kilosa and Morogoro regions; series in the Field Museum of Natural History), SE Zaire, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, E and SE Botswana, C Mozambique, and N and NW South Africa.

SYNONYMS: selousi, transvaalensis .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Revised by Dippenaar and Rautenbach (1986). Interpretation of genic data indicated A. spinosissimus should be placed in a species-group separate from other Acomys (Janecek et al., 1991) .