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Heterohyrax chapini

Description

Heterohyrax chapini (Hatt, 1933). Am. Mus. Novit., 594:1.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Bas Congo Dist., Summit of Loadi Hill, 5 km S.W. of Matadi.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the vicinity of the type locality.

COMMENT: Hatt, 1936, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 72: 132, and Bothma, 1971, Part 12:1-8, stated that this species may be conspecific with brucei, and it was so placed by Roche, 1972, Mammalia, 36:41.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Hyracoidea, pp. 312-313 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 313, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352999

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hatt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Hyracoidea
Family
Procaviidae
Genus
Heterohyrax
Species
chapini
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Heterohyrax chapini (Hatt, 1933) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Hatt, R. T. 1936. The hyraxes collected by the American Museum Congo expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 72: 117 - 141.
  • Bothma, J. du P. 1971. Order Hyracoidea. Part 12, Pp. 1 - 8, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Roche, J. 1972. Systematique du genre Procavia et des damans en general. Mammalia, 36: 22 - 49.