Saccostomus mearnsi Heller, 1910 . Smithson. Misc. Coll., 54 (1924):3.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Changamwe .

DISTRIBUTION: Tanzania and Uganda to Ethiopia and Somalia.

COMMENT: Formerly included in campestris by Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 14. Includes cricetulus, isiolae, and umbriventer; see Hubert, 1978, in Schlitter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6:48-52.