Equus burchellii
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Equus burchellii (Gray, 1824). Zool. J., 1:247.
TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, N Cape Province, Kuruman, Little Klibbolikhonni Fontein.
DISTRIBUTION: SE Sudan, SW Ethiopia and S Somalia south and southwest to SE Zaire, S and E Angola, N Namibia, N and E Botswana; Natal and Transvaal (South Africa); formerly more widespread in southern Africa, south to Orange River.
SYNONYMS: annectens, antiquorum, boehmi, borensis, campestris, chapmanni, crawshaii, cuninghamei, festivus, foai, goldfinchi, granfi, isabella, jallae, kaufntanni, kaokensis, mariae, markhami, muansae, paucistriatus, pococki, selousii, tigrinus, transvaalensis, wahlbergi, zambeziensis, zebroides.
COMMENTS: A species separate from E. quagga; see Gentry (1975), Eisenmann and Turlot (1978), and Bennett (1980). Many previous workers regarded quagga and burchellii as conspecific; see Rau (1978). Recently regarded as conspecific by Groves (1985b). Reviewed by Grubb (1981, Mammalian Species, 157).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353118 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1E3D8B6AFFFAFFB0854BFFB41E393448 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/E204F312FFFAFFB08596FA341AC933D7 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205133490 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193463/taxon/E204F312FFFAFFB08596FA341AC933D7.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perissodactyla
- Family
- Equidae
- Genus
- Equus
- Species
- burchellii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Equus burchellii (Gray, 1824) sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- Gentry, A. W. 1975. A quagga, Equus quagga (Mammalia, Equidae), at University College, London and a note on a supposed quagga in the City Museum, Bristol. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 28: 217 - 226.
- Eisenmann, V., and J. - C. Turlot. 1978. Sur la taxinomie du genre Equus (equides). Les Cahiers de l'Analyse des Donnees, 3: 179 - 201.
- Bennett, D. K. 1980. Stripes do not a zebra make, part 1: A cladistic analysis of Equus. Systematic Zoology, 29: 272 - 287.
- Rau, R. E. 1978. Additions to the revised list of preserved material of the extinct Cape Colony quagga and notes on the relationship and distribution of southern plains zebras. Annals of the South African Museum, 77: 27 - 45.
- Groves, C. P. 1985 b. Was the quagga a species or a subspecies? African Wildlife, 39: 106 - 107.
- Grubb, P. 1981. Equus burchellii. Mammalian Species, 157: 1 - 9.