Heliophobius argenteocinereus Peters, 1846

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 772

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scientific name	Heliophobius argenteocinereus Peters, 1846
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Heliophobius argenteocinereus Peters, 1846 View in CoL . Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 11:259.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Tete (on the Zambezi River) .

DISTRIBUTION: Zimbabwe, E Zambia, and N Mozambique to Zaire, Kenya, and N Tanzania.

SYNONYMS: albifrons, angonicus, emini, kapiti, marungensis, mottoulei, pallidus Gray, 1864 , robustus , spalax .

COMMENTS: Honeycutt et al. (1991:54-55) concluded that the characters used to separate H. spalax from H. argenteocinereus are due to age variation, and that the genus is monotypic. See also de Graaff (1975:2). The chromosome no. is 2n=60.