Saccostomus campestris Peters, 1846 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 258.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Tete .

DISTRIBUTION: Transvaal (South Africa); Namibia; S. Angola; Botswana; E. Zimbabwe; Mozambique; Malawi; S. Zaire.

COMMENT: Formerly included mearnsi; see Hubert, 1978, in Schlitter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6:48-52.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008102001001.