Heterohyrax brucei (Gray, 1868)

Duane A. Schlitter, 1993, Order Hyracoidea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 373-374 : 373

Heterohyrax brucei (Gray, 1868) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 1:44.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia (= Abyssinia) .

DISTRIBUTION: Egypt to Somalia to N South Africa to WC Angola.

SYNONYMS: albipes, arboricola, bakeri, blainvillii , bocagei, borana, chapini , dieseneri, frommi, granti, grayi, hararensis, hindei, hoogstraali, irroratus, kempi, lademanni, maculata, manningi, mossambicus, miinzneri, princeps, prittwitzi, pumilus, rhodesiae, ruckwaensis, ruddi, rudolfi, somalicus, ssongaea, thomasi, victoria-njansae, webensis.

COMMENTS: Allen (1939) considered Hyrax syriacus a prior name for this species; Bothma (1971) referred syriacus to Procavia ; see comment under P. capensis . Bothma (1971) and Hatt (1936: 132) stated that H. chapini may be conspecific with brucei , and was so placed by Roche (1972:41).