Giraffa giraffa
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 giraffa (Boddaert, 1784)
Diagnosis
Anterior horn rudimentary, shanks coloured and fully spotted, three ES in the C1orf74 intron: 24 A=>T, 33 A=>G, 825 C=> G; three ES in the DHX36 intron: 127 G =>A, 449 dAT, 498 A=>G; one ES in the IGF2B1 intron: 45 G =>A; one ES in the UBN2 intron: 386 dTCT; six ES in the USP33 intron: 267 G =>A, 279 T=>C, 309 dAA, 538 G =>T, 805 A=>G, 928 G =>A.
Type material examined
Neotype (here designated)
NAMIBIA • 1 specimen (mounted skeleton), “Giraffe of Levaillant”; North of the Orange river; MNHN-A7977.
Distribution
Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia (neotype), South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Remarks
No concrete holotype specimen assigned, as specimens of the Prince of Orange Museum in The Hague and the giraffe of Vosmaer (1787) from the Naturalis museum in Leiden (Netherlands) are ʻwhereabouts unknownʼ.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHN-A
- Material sample ID
- MNHN-A7977
- Scientific name authorship
- Boddaert
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Giraffidae
- Genus
- Giraffa
- Species
- giraffa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- neotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Giraffa giraffa (Boddaert, 1784) sec. Petzold, Magnant, Edderai, Chardonnet, Rigoulet, Saint-Jalme & Hassanin, 2020
References
- Boddaert P. 1784. Camelopardalis giraffa. Elenchus Animalium Vol. 1: Systems Quadrupedia. C. R. Hake, Rotterdam.
- Vosmaer A. 1787. Description du chameau-leopard (Camelopardalis). P. Meyer and G. Warners, Amsterdam.