Tragelaphus strepsiceros
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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).
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Related works
- 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/85B8A717301B82F681DFFFAEBF132A63 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231541106 (URL)
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.