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Sylvicapra grimmia

Description

Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus 1758)

[Capra] grimmia Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 70.

Type Locality: "Habitat in Africa"; based on a specimen seen by Grimm in the fort at Cape Town (Thomas, 1911 a:153) so now known to be South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape Town.

Vernacular Names: Bush Duiker.

Subspecies::

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

Distribution: Non-forested habitats in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, S, E, and N Dem. Rep. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, S Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, S Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, S Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Republic of Congo, Senegal, N Sierra Leone, S Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

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

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Sylvicapra
Species
grimmia
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus, 1758) 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.
  • Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
  • 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.