Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest, 1822)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 284

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scientific name	Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest, 1822)
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Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest, 1822) View in CoL . Mammalogie, in Encyclop. Meth., 2(Suppl.):538.

TYPE LOCALITY: "le Cap de Bonne-Espérance" ( South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope] .

DISTRIBUTION: Allopatric south ( Botswana, Namibia, South Africa) and east ( Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania) African popultions ( Ginsberg and Macdonald, 1990).

SYNONYMS: auritus Hamilton], Smith, 1840; caffer Müller, 1836 ; canescens Cabrera, 1910 ; lalandi Desmoulins, 1823; steinhardti Zukowsky, 1924; virgatus Miller, 1909.