Chrysochloris asiatica (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:53.

TYPE LOCALITY: "In Sibiria"; usually taken as Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. See Ellerman et al. (1953) .

DISTRIBUTION: W Cape Prov. and Robben Isl. (South Africa); perhaps Damaraland, Namibia.

SYNONYMS: auratus, aurea, capensis, bayoni, calviniae, concolor, damarensis, dixoni, elegans, inaurata, minor, namaquensis, rubra, shortridgei, taylori, tenuis, visserae (see Meester et al., 1986).