Chrysochloris asiatica

Chrysochloris asiatica (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:53. TYPE LOCALITY: "In Sibiria"; usually taken as Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. See Ellerman et al. (1953). DISTRIBUTION: W Cape Prov. and Robben Isl. (South Africa); perhaps Damaraland, Namibia. SYNONYMS: auratus, aurea, capensis, bayoni, calviniae, concolor, damarensis, dixoni, elegans, inaurata, minor, namaquensis, rubra, shortridgei, taylori, tenuis, visserae (see Meester et al., 1986).Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 75, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735308