Giraffa camelopardalis subsp. antiquorum
Authors/Creators
- 1. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Sorbonne Université, MNHN, CNRS, EPHE, UA, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 55 rue Buffon - CP 51 - 75005 Paris, France.
- 2. Anville - 17750 Etaules, France.
- 3. 92210 Saint Cloud, France.
- 4. Former address: Direction Générale Déléguée aux Musées, Jardins Botaniques et Zoologiques, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier - 75005 Paris, France.
- 5. Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, UMR 7204 MNHN CNRS-UPMC, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle - 75005 Paris, France.
Description
Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum (Jardine, 1835)
Giraffa camelopardalis sennaariensis Trouessart, 1898: p.902.
Giraffa camelopardalis congoensis Lydekker, 1903: 386.
Giraffa camelopardalis cottoni Lydekker, 1904: 207, fig. 1.
Diagnosis
Spots on the upper part of the fore-limbs and the thighs broken up in a number of very small and irregular ones.
Type material
Holotype
SUDAN • 1 ♂ (skull and tanned skin of a male giraffe); South of Darfur; SMF-498.
Paratype
SUDAN • 1 ♀ (skull and tanned skin of a female giraffe); South of Darfur; SMF-497.
Distribution
Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan (holotype).
Remarks
The holotype designation was based on the information provided by Rüppel (1826), who collected two specimens in North Africa. Both specimens can be meanwhile found in the collection of the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt (Germany) listed as SMF-498 (skull and tanned skin, male): unspecified type and SMF-497 (skull and tanned skin, female): paratype.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SMF
- Material sample ID
- SMF-497 , SMF-498
- Scientific name authorship
- Jardine
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Giraffidae
- Genus
- Giraffa
- Species
- antiquorum
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Giraffa camelopardalis subsp. antiquorum (Jardine, 1835) sec. Petzold, Magnant, Edderai, Chardonnet, Rigoulet, Saint-Jalme & Hassanin, 2020
References
- Jardine W. 1835. The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals, containing Deer, Antilopes, Camels & c. W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 131528
- Trouessart L. 1898. Catalogus Mammalium tam viventium quam fossilium. Vol. 4: Tillodontia et Ungulata. Freidlander, Berlin. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 130824
- Lydekker R. 1903. Local variation in the Giraffe. In: Animal Life and the World of Nature. Vol. 2: 78 - 84. Hutchinson & Co, London.
- Lydekker R. 1904. On the Subspecies of Giraffa camelopardalis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 74: 202 - 227. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1904. tb 08288. x