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).