Proteles cristatus (Sparrman, 1783) . Resa Goda-Hopps-Udden. I., 1783:581.

TYPE LOCALITY: English translation (Sparrman, 1786) of original locality: "Agter-Bruntjes hoogte...which takes in the upper part of Kleine Visch-rivier, and is separated from Camdebo by Bruntjes hoogtens ..."; listed in Allen (1939) as "Near Little Fish River, Somerset East, Cape Colony" [South Africa] .

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Botswana).

SYNONYMS: canescens Shortridge and Carter, 1938; harrisoni Rothschild, 1902; hyenoides Desmarest, 1822; lalandii I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824; pallidior Cabrera, 1910; septentrionalis Rothschild, 1902; termes Heller, 1913; transvaalensis Roberts, 1932; typicus A. Smith, 1833 .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Koehler and Richardson (1990, Mammalian Species, 363).