Tatera valida (Bocage, 1890) . J. Sei. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, 2:6.

TYPE LOCALITY: W. Angola, Rio Cuando .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Cameroun, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya to S.W. Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.

COMMENT: Includes benvenuta, dichrura, flavipes, gambiana, hopkinsoni, kempi, nigrita, taborae, and wellmani; see Davis, 1975, Part 6.4:3-4. Hubert et al., 1973, Mammalia, 37:76-87, suggested that gambiana and kempi may be conspecific, but listed the junior name gambiana as a distinct species. Rosevear, 1969, The Rodents of West Africa, Br. Mus. Lond., included gambiana in kempi, and also listed hopkinsoni and wellmani as distinct species. Matthey and Petter, 1970, listed valida in Taterillus .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008098027001 as T. valida .

5301410008098002001 as T. benvenuta .

5301410008098007001 as T. dichrura .

5301410008098009001 as T. flavipes .

5301410008098011001 as T. gambiana .

5301410008098013001 as T. hopkinsoni .

5301410008098016001 as T. kempii (sic).

5301410008098021001 as T. nigrita .

5301410008098026001 as T. taborae .

5301410008098028001 as T. welmanni (sic).