Elephantulus rufescens (Peters, 1878). Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1878:198. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Taita, Ndi. DISTRIBUTION: S and E Ethiopia, N and SE Kenya, NE Uganda, S Sudan, NC and W Tanzania, N and S Somalia. SYNONYMS: boranus, delicatus, dundasi, hoogstraali, mariakanae, ocularis, peasei, phaeus, pulcher, renatus, rendilis, somalicus. COMMENTS: See Koontz and Roeper (1983, Mammalian Species, 204).Published as part of Duane A. Schlitter, 1993, Order Macroscelidea, pp. 829-830 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 829, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735309