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Giraffa camelopardalis subsp. peralta Thomas 1898
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 peralta Thomas, 1898
Diagnosis
Elongated skull, large spatulate nasal opening, vertically upright direction of the ossicones, fawncoloured patch below the ears, white sparsely spotted occipital region; two ES in the Cytb gene: 219 C=>T, 1080 C=>T, and one ES in the CR: 23 A=> G.
Type material
Holotype
NIGERIA • 1 specimen (skull and bones of right fore and left hind limb); Lokoja; NHMUK-1898.2.18.1.
Distribution
Niger.
Remarks
The type locality has originally been assigned to the junction between the Niger and Benue rivers in Nigeria, but it was corrected in this study to Lokoja (Nigeria) north of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers in accordance with Happold (1969).
Notes
Published as part of Petzold, Alice, Magnant, Anne-Sophie, Edderai, David, Chardonnet, Bertrand, Rigoulet, Jacques, Saint-Jalme, Michel & Hassanin, Alexandre, 2020, First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens, pp. 1-33 in European Journal of Taxonomy 703 on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.703, http://zenodo.org/record/3989669
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK
- Family
- Giraffidae
- Genus
- Giraffa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- NHMUK-1898.2.18.1.
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Species
- peralta
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Giraffa camelopardalis subsp. peralta Thomas, 1898 sec. Petzold, Magnant, Edderai, Chardonnet, Rigoulet, Saint-Jalme & Hassanin, 2020
References
- Thomas O. 1898. On a new subspecies of giraffe from Nigeria. Proceedings Zoological Society London 1898: 39 - 41.
- Happold D. C. D. 1969. The present distribution and status of the giraffe in West Africa. Mammalia 33 (3): 516 - 521. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / mamm. 1969.33.3.516