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Sylvicapra Ogilby 1836

Description

Sylvicapra Ogilby 1836

Sylvicapra Ogilby 1836, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 138.

Type Species: Antilope mergens Desmarest 1816

Species and subspecies: 1 species with 13 subspecies:

Species Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus 1758)

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. grimmia Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. altivallis Heller 1912

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. caffra Fitzinger 1869

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. campbelliae Gray 1843

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. coronata Gray 1842

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. hindei Wroughton 1910

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. lobeliarum Lönnberg 1919

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. madoqua Rüppell 1836

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. nyansae Neumann 1905

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. orbicularis Peters 1852

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. pallidior Schwarz 1914

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. splendidula Gray 1891

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. steinhardti Zukowsky 1924

Discussion: Included in Cephalophus by Haltenorth (1963:71) and Van Gelder (1977 b:18); but see Ansell (1978:57), Swanepool et al. (1980:188), and Meester et al. (1986).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 716, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Bovidae
Genus
Sylvicapra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Ogilby
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Sylvicapra Ogilby, 1836 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • Heller, E. 1912. New rodents from British East Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 59: 1 - 20.
  • Gray, J. E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 216 pp.
  • Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Gray (Tarsipes Spenserae and Chaeropus castanotis). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 9: 39 - 42.
  • Wroughton, R. C. 1910. On the nomenclature of the Indian hedgehogs. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 20: 80 - 82.
  • Peters, W. C. H. 1852. Reise nach Mossambique. I. Saugethiere. Druck & Verlag, Berlin, 202 pp.
  • Haltenorth, T. 1963. Klassifikation der Saugetiere: Artiodactyla I. Handbuch der Zoologie, 8 (32): 1 - 167.
  • Van Gelder, R. G. 1977 b. Mammalian hybrids and generic limits. American Museum Novitates, 2635: 1 - 25.
  • Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.
  • 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.