Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata de Winton, 1899

Giraffa camelopardalis australis Rhoads, 1896: 518 .

Giraffa hagenbecki Knottnerus-Meyer, 1910: 800 .

Giraffa reticulata nigrescens Lydekker, 1911: 484 .

Diagnosis

Deep liver-red colour with a coarse network of narrow white lines, one ES in the Cytb gene: 795 C=>T; one ES in the CR: 94 C=>T.

Type material

Holotype

KENYA • 1 specimen (skull, scalp and piece of neck skin); East of Loroghi mountains; NHMUK-1897.1.30.1.

Distribution

Southern Ethiopia, Kenya (holotype), Somalia.