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Orycteropus afer

Description

Orycteropus afer (Pallas 1766)

[Myrmecophaga] afra Pallas 1766, Misc. Zool.: 64.

Type Locality: South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.

Vernacular Names: Aardvark.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. afer Pallas 1766

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. adametzi Grote 1921

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. aethiopicus Sundevall 1843

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. angolensis Zukowsky and Haltenorth 1957

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. erikssoni Lönnberg 1906

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. faradjius Hatt 1932

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. haussanus Matschie 1900

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. kordofanicus Rothschild 1927

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. lademanni Grote 1911

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. leptodon Hirst 1906

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. matschiei Grote 1921

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. observandus Grote 1921

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. ruvanensis Grote 1921

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. senegalensis Lesson 1840

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. somalicus Lydekker 1908

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. wardi Lydekker 1908

Subspecies Orycteropus afer subsp. wertheri Matschie 1898

Distribution: Savannah zones of West Africa to E Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea; Kenya; Somalia; N and W Uganda to Tanzania; Rwanda; N, E, and C Dem. Rep. Congo; W Angola; Namibia; Botswana; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Mozambique; South Africa.

Conservation: IUCN – Least Concern.

Discussion: Reviewed by Melton (1976), Pocock (1924), and Shoshani et al. (1988, Mammalian Species, 300). Seventeen poorly defined subspecies are recognized (Meester, 1972 b; Meester et al., 1986).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Tubulidentata, pp. 86 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/293DC55C07F8E7D0BF698A299F61E4E3 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/6FABD972095A3337871657219075A5E2 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/231533727 (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pallas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Tubulidentata
Family
Orycteropodidae
Genus
Orycteropus
Species
afer
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Matschie, P. 1900. Uber geographische Albarten des Afrikanischen elephantens. Sitzungsberichte Gesellschaft naturforschunde Freunde Berlin, 8: 189 - 197.
  • Lesson, R. P. 1840. Species es mammiferes bimanes et quadrimanes ... Bailliere, London, 292 pp.
  • Melton, D. A. 1976. The biology of the aardvark (Tubulidentata-Orycteropodidae). Mammal Review, 6 (2): 75 - 88.
  • Pocock, R. I. 1924. Some external characters of Orycteropus afer. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1924: 697 - 706.
  • Shoshani, J., C. A. Goldman, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 1988. Oryteropus afer. Mammalian Species, 300: 1 - 8.
  • Meester, J. 1972 b. Order Tubulidentata. Part 10. Pp. 1 - 2, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 2 May 1972]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Meester, J. A. J., I. L. Rautenbach, N. J. Dippenaar, and C. M. Baker. 1986. Classification of southern African mammals. Transvaal Museum Monograph, 5: 1 - 359.