Giraffa camelopardalis peralta Thomas, 1898

Diagnosis

Elongated skull, large spatulate nasal opening, vertically upright direction of the ossicones, fawncoloured patch below the ears, white sparsely spotted occipital region; two ES in the Cytb gene: 219 C=>T, 1080 C=>T, and one ES in the CR: 23 A=> G.

Type material

Holotype

NIGERIA • 1 specimen (skull and bones of right fore and left hind limb); Lokoja; NHMUK-1898.2.18.1.

Distribution

Niger.

Remarks

The type locality has originally been assigned to the junction between the Niger and Benue rivers in Nigeria, but it was corrected in this study to Lokoja (Nigeria) north of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers in accordance with Happold (1969).