Giraffa camelopardalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 383

Giraffa camelopardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:66.

TYPE LOCALITY: "AEthiopia et Sennar", restricted to Sudan, Sennar, by Harper (1940:322) .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly, Gambia and Senegal to Ethiopia and Somalia, south to Central African Republic, NE Zaire, Uganda and Tanzania; E and SW Zambia; S Angola, Zimbabwe and S Mozambique to South Africa, mostly north of the Orange River. Distribution now much restricted; in W Africa still present at least until recently in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, NE Nigeria and N Cameroon; in southern Africa, now ranging no further south than N Namibia, Botswana and E Transvaal ( South Africa).

SYNONYMS: aethiopica , angolensis, antiquorum , australis , biturigum, capensis , congoensis, cottoni , giraffa , hagenbecki , infumata , maculata , nigrescens , peralta, renatae, reticulata , rothschildi , schillingsi , senaariensis , thornicrofti, tippelskirchi , wardi .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Dagg (1971, Mammalian Species, 5).