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Tragelaphus strepsiceros

Description

Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas 1766)

[Antilope] strepsiceros Pallas 1766, Misc. Zool.: 9.

Type Locality: "Prom. B. Spei" (Cape of Good Hope); restricted to South Africa, south-eastern Cape Prov. [eastern part of Western Cape Prov.] by Grubb (1999:36).

Vernacular Names: Greater Kudu.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Tragelaphus strepsiceros subsp. strepsiceros Pallas 1766

Subspecies Tragelaphus strepsiceros subsp. bea Heller 1913

Subspecies Tragelaphus strepsiceros subsp. burlacei Ansell 1969

Subspecies Tragelaphus strepsiceros subsp. chora Cretzschmar 1826

Subspecies Tragelaphus strepsiceros subsp. zambesiensis Lorenz 1894

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, N Central African Republic, S Chad, SE Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, N Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia (extinct?), South Africa, W and E Sudan, NE Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Subspecific systematics from Ansell (1972:25), modified by Grubb (1999).

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 699, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pallas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Tragelaphus
Species
strepsiceros
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas, 1766) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Grubb, P. 1999. Types and type localities of ungulates named from southern Africa. Koedoe, 42: 13 - 45.
  • Lorenz, L. von 1894. Ueber die von Herrn Dr. E. Holub gespendeten sudafrikanischen saugethiere. Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 9: 59 - 67.
  • 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.