diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
index 8d880b037c..bf3a31eb7b 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ For clients to authenticate, the token key should be included in the `Authorizat
 If successfully authenticated, `TokenAuthentication` provides the following credentials.
 
 * `request.user` will be a Django `User` instance.
-* `request.auth` will be a `rest_framework.authtoken.models.BasicToken` instance.
+* `request.auth` will be a `rest_framework.authtoken.models.Token` instance.
 
 Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 401 Unauthorized` response with an appropriate WWW-Authenticate header.  For example: