Order Hyracoidea Author Duane A. Schlitter text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 373 374 book chapter 193476 10.5281/zenodo.7353081 2c6d276b-693d-4c91-867e-bdbc62f22a0d 1-56098-217-9 7353081 Procavia capensis (Pallas, 1766) . Mise. Zool., p. 30 . TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa , Cape Prov. , Cape of Good Hope . DISTRIBUTION: Syria ; Lebanon ; Turkey ; Israel ; Saudi Arabia ; Yemen ; NE Africa; Senegal to Somalia to N Tanzania ; S Malawi to S Angola , Namibia and South Africa ; isolated mountains in Algeria and Libya . SYNONYMS: abbyssinicus, alpini, antineae , bamendae, bounhioli, buchanani, burtonii, butteri, capillosa, chiversi, cornata, coombsi, daemon, dongolanus, ebneri, ehrenbergi, elberti, erlangeri, ferrugineus, flavimaculata, goslingi, habessinicus, ituriensis, jacksoni, jayakari, johnstoni, kamerunensis, kerstingi, latastei, letabae, lopesi, luteogaster, mackinderi, marlothi, marrensis, matschiei, melfica, meneliki, minor, natalensis, naumanni, orangiae, oweni, pallida, ruficeps, reuningi, schmitzi, schultzei, scioanus, semicircularis, sharica, sinaiticus, slatini, syriaca, varians, volkmanni, waterbergensis, welwitschii, windhuki, zelotes. COMMENTS: Includes habessinica, johnstoni, ruficeps, syriaca, and welwitschii; see Corbet (1979) , Roche (1972) , and Skinner and Smithers (1990:558) ; but see also Bothma (1971) . See Olds and Shoshani (1982 , Mammalian Species, 171).