Equus quagga Boddaert 1785

Equus quagga Boddaert 1785, Elench. Anim.: 160.

Type Locality: "Caffrorum regione"; locality of paralectotype now identified as South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Colesburg Dist., Seekoei River (Grubb, 1999).

Vernacular Names: Quagga.

Synonyms: Equus couagga Desmarest 1822; Equus danielli Pocock 1904; Equus greyi Lydekker 1902; Equus lorenzi Lydekker 1902; Equus qouagga Lesson 1827; Equus quaccha Gray 1827; Equus trouessarti Camerano 1908 .

Distribution: Formerly South Africa, south of the Orange-Vaal Rivers.

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct.

Discussion: See comments under burchellii . Last specimen, a captive, died in 1872.