Tragelaphus imberbis Blyth 1869

Tragelaphus imberbis Blyth 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869: 55.

Type Locality: " Abyssinia "; now known to be Ethiopia, Shoa Prov.

Vernacular Names: Lesser Kudu.

Distribution: SE Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, SE Sudan, E Tanzania, NE Uganda. Also apparently Yemen and SW Saudi Arabia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: The type specimen was procured in Shoa Prov. by W. C. Harris, possibly at Manyo or Taboo Forest (Yalden et al., 1984). Arabian records are based on only two specimens (Harrison and Bates, 1991:192).