Gerbillurus tytonis (Bauer and Niethammer, 1960) . Bonn. Zool. Beitr., (1959), 10:236 -260.

TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia, Sossus Vlei .

DISTRIBUTION: Namibia.

COMMENT: Formerly included in vallinus; see Schütter, 1973, Bull. South. Calif. Acad. Sei., 72 (1): 13 — 18, and Davis, 1975, Part 6.4:5, who considered it a distinct species.