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Bdeogale jacksoni

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Description

Bdeogale jacksoni (Thomas, 1894). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 13:522.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Mianzini, Masailand, 8000 feet " (pg. 523). Restricted by Moreau et al. (1946:410) to "Mianzini... a few miles E.S.E. of Naivasha and on the southern end of the Kinangop Plateau... 9000 ft " [Kenya].

DISTRIBUTION: C Kenya, SE Uganda.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: Rosevear (1974) placed jacksoni in Galeriscus. Kingdon (1977) considered jacksoni conspecific with nigripes; however, Rosevear (1974) and Coetzee (1977b) noted skull and skin differences.

Notes

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Herpestidae
Genus
Bdeogale
Species
jacksoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bdeogale jacksoni (Thomas, 1894) sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Moreau, R. E., G. H. E. Hopkins, and R. W. Hayman. 1946. The type-localities of some African mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1946: 387 - 447.
  • Rosevear, D. R. 1974. The carnivores of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 723: 1 - 548.
  • Kingdon, J. 1977. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. (Carnivores). Academic Press, New York, 3 A: 1 - 476.
  • Coetzee, C. G. 1977 b. Order Carnivora. Part 8. Pp. 1 - 42, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.