Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest, 1822) . Mammalogie, in Encyclop. Meth., 2(Suppl.):538.

TYPE LOCALITY: "le Cap de Bonne-Espérance" (South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope] .

DISTRIBUTION: Allopatric south (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa) and east (Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania) African popultions (Ginsberg and Macdonald, 1990).

SYNONYMS: auritus Hamilton], Smith, 1840; caffer Müller, 1836; canescens Cabrera, 1910; lalandi Desmoulins, 1823; steinhardti Zukowsky, 1924; virgatus Miller, 1909.