Tatera nigricauda (Peters, 1878) . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1879:200 [1878].
TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Taita, Ndi .
DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.
SYNONYMS: nyama, percivali .
COMMENTS: Subgenus Taterona . Revised by Bates (1988).