Sylvicapra grimmia
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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).
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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.