Order Insectivora Author Rainer Hutterer text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 69 130 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085 1-56098-217-9 7353085 Chrysospalax villosus (A. Smith, 1833) . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:81 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Towards Natal", near Durban, South Africa ; see Roberts (1951:121) . DISTRIBUTION: Transvaal and Natal ( South Africa ). STATUS: IUCN - Vulnerable. SYNONYMS: dobsoni , leschae, pratensis, rufopallidus, rufus, transvaalensis. COMMENTS: Meester et al. (1986:16-17) listed dobsoni , leschae, rufopallidus, rufus, and transvaalensis as subspecies.