Crocuta crocuta
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Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
[Canis] crocuta Erxleben 1777, Systema Regni Animalis, Vol. 1: 578.
Type Locality: " Guinea, Aethiopia, ad caput bonae spei in terrae rupiumque caueis", restricted by Cabrera (1911:95) to "Senegambia".
Vernacular Names: Spotted Hyena.
Synonyms: Crocuta capensis (Desmarest 1817); Crocuta cuvieri (Boitard 1842); Crocuta fisi Heller 1914; Crocuta fortis J. A. Allen 1924; Crocuta gariepensis (Matschie 1900); Crocuta germinans (Matschie 1900); Crocuta habessynica (de Blainville 1844); Crocuta kibonotensis (Lönnberg 1908); Crocuta leontiewi (Satunin 1905); Crocuta maculata (Thunberg 1811); Crocuta noltei (Matschie 1900); Crocuta nyasae Cabrera 1911; Crocuta nzoyae Cabrera 1911; Crocuta panganensis (Lönnberg 1908); Crocuta rufa (Desmarest 1817); Crocuta rufopicta Cabrera 1911; Crocuta sivalensis (Falconer and Cautley in Falconer 1868); Crocuta thierryi (Matschie 1900); Crocuta thomasi Cabrera 1911; Crocuta togoensis (Matschie 1900); Crocuta wissmanni (Matschie 1900).
Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Dem. Rep. Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).
Discussion: Revised by Matthews (1939a, b). Synonyms according to Matthews (1939 a) and Jenks and Werdelin (1998) who demonstrated that subspecies are not justified.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
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- Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.
- Cabrera, A. 1911. On the specimens of spotted hyaenas in the British Museum (Natural History). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 93 - 99.
- Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281.
- Matschie, P. 1900. Uber geographische Albarten des Afrikanischen elephantens. Sitzungsberichte Gesellschaft naturforschunde Freunde Berlin, 8: 189 - 197.
- Matthews, L. H. 1939 a. The subspecies and variation of the spotted hyaena, Crocuta crocuta Erxl. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1939: 237 - 260.
- Jenks, S. M., and L. Werdelin. 1998. Taxonomy and systematics of living hyaenas (Family Hyaenidae), Pp. 8 - 17, in Hyaenas: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (G. Mills, and H. Hofer, eds.) IUCN / SSC Hyaena Specialist Group. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland. 154 pp.