Acomys subspinosus (Waterhouse, 1838) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:104 [1838].

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov, Cape of Good Hope .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa; restricted to S and SW Cape Prov. (Dippenaar and Rautenbach, 1986; Skinner and Smithers, 1990).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Revised by Dippenaar and Rautenbach (1986). Should be in a species-group by itself, according to the results of genic analyses by Janecek et al. (1991).