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Hippotragus niger
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Description
Hippotragus niger (Harris, 1838). Athenaeum, 535:71.
TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Transvaal, Cashan Range (= Magaliesberge), near Pretoria.
DISTRIBUTION: SE Kenya to N South Africa, west to N Botswana; Angola, between Cuanza and Loando Rs.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I, and U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered, as H. n. variani.
SYNONYMS: anselli, harrisi, kaufmanni, kirkii, roosevelti, variarli.
COMMENTS: Includes variarti; see Ansell (1972:47). Original publication usually assumed to be Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838:2 (pubi. July, 1838), but McAllan and Bruce (1989) have shown that an earlier publication is The Athenaeum (pubi. 27 Jan., 1838).
Notes
Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 412-413, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D512126ADB27FFB02C48D16AF9520EBD (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205140366 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB27FFB02C48D16AF9520EBD.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Harris
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Hippotragus
- Species
- niger
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hippotragus niger (Harris, 1838) sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- Ansell, W. F. H. 1972. Order Artiodactyla. Part 15. Pp. 1 - 84, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 2 May 1972]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- McAllan, A. W., and M. D. Bruce. 1989. Some problems in vertebrate nomenclature. I. Mammals. Bollettino, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 7: 443 - 460.