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Cephalophus adersi Thomas 1918

Description

Cephalophus adersi Thomas 1918

Cephalophus adersi Thomas 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 2: 151.

Type Locality: Tanzania, " Zanzibar ".

Vernacular Names: Aders' Duiker.

Distribution: Tanzania (Zanzibar) and Kenya (Sokoke Forest).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Thought possibly to be conspecific with natalensis and/or callipygus; see Ansell (1972:33) but these presumed affinities were not supported by Jansen van Vuuren and Robinson (2001).

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 712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Cephalophus
Species
adersi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cephalophus adersi Thomas, 1918 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • 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.
  • Jansen van Vuuren, B., and T. J. Robinson. 2001. Retrieval of four adaptive lineages in duiker antelope: Evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequences and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Ecology, 20: 409 - 425.