Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857

Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: 256.

Type Locality: "Thirty or forty miles above Libonta"; since identified as Zambia, Barotseland, Chobe Valley, near Libonda at 40°0'S, 23°15'E.

Vernacular Names: Puku.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. vardonii Livingstone 1857

Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. senganus P. L. Sclater and Thomas 1897

Distribution: NE Angola, N Botswana, S Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), S Tanzania, Zambia, and N Zimbabwe (vagrant).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Included in kob by Haltenorth (1963:92) but Ansell (1972:40), whose subspecies are followed here, treated kob and vardoni as separate species in a superspecies. Cotterill (2003 a) treated senganus as an evolutionary species.