Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857
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Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857
Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: 256.
Type Locality: "Thirty or forty miles above Libonta"; since identified as Zambia, Barotseland, Chobe Valley, near Libonda at 40°0'S, 23°15'E.
Vernacular Names: Puku.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. vardonii Livingstone 1857
Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. senganus P. L. Sclater and Thomas 1897
Distribution: NE Angola, N Botswana, S Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), S Tanzania, Zambia, and N Zimbabwe (vagrant).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).
Discussion: Included in kob by Haltenorth (1963:92) but Ansell (1972:40), whose subspecies are followed here, treated kob and vardoni as separate species in a superspecies. Cotterill (2003 a) treated senganus as an evolutionary species.
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/AB6A4FBA464988A6B3A53F4B8CD52B4B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/819D3CAB60290C319A6A6E259E3DABBF (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231541069 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Kobus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Livingstone
- Species
- vardonii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Kobus vardonii Livingstone, 1857 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Haltenorth, T. 1963. Klassifikation der Saugetiere: Artiodactyla I. Handbuch der Zoologie, 8 (32): 1 - 167.
- Ansell, W. F. H. 1972. Order Artiodactyla. Part 15. Pp. 1 - 84, 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.
- Cotterill, F. P. D. 2003 a. Geomorphological influences on vicariant evolution in some African mammals in the Zambezi Basin: Some lessons for conservation. Pp. 11 - 58, in Ecology and conservation of small antelope (A. Plowman, ed.). Filander Verlag, Furth, 262 pp.