Order Carnivora Author W. Christopher Wozencraft text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 279 348 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7359191 1-56098-217-9 7359191 Proteles cristatus (Sparrman, 1783) . Resa Goda-Hopps-Udden. I., 1783:581 . TYPE LOCALITY: English translation (Sparrman, 1786) of original locality: "Agter-Bruntjes hoogte...which takes in the upper part of Kleine Visch-rivier, and is separated from Camdebo by Bruntjes hoogtens ..."; listed in Allen (1939) as "Near Little Fish River, Somerset East, Cape Colony" [ South Africa ] . DISTRIBUTION: Angola , Botswana , Central African Republic , Egypt , Ethiopia , Kenya , Mozambique , Namibia , Somalia , South Africa , Sudan , Tanzania , Uganda , Zambia , Zimbabwe . STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( Botswana ). SYNONYMS: canescens Shortridge and Carter, 1938 ; harrisoni Rothschild, 1902; hyenoides Desmarest, 1822; lalandii I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824 ; pallidior Cabrera, 1910; septentrionalis Rothschild, 1902; termes Heller, 1913; transvaalensis Roberts, 1932; typicus A. Smith, 1833 . COMMENTS: Reviewed by Koehler and Richardson (1990 , Mammalian Species, 363).