Damaliscus lunatus (Burchell, 1823)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 394

Damaliscus lunatus (Burchell, 1823) . Travels in Interior of Southern Africa, 2:334 [1824].

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Matlhawareng River, NE of Kuruman .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Mauritania and Senegal east to W Ethiopia and S Somalia, and south to Tanzania; also Zambia to South Africa. Now extinct in Mauritana, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Mozambique and most of South African Range; survives in Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, N Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, W Ethiopia, S Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, E and S Zaire, NE Namibia, N Botswana, E Angola, W and C Zambia, Zimbabwe and Transvaal (South Africa) .

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( Ghana); IUCN - Vulnerable as D. I. korrigum .

SYNONYMS: eurus, floweri, jimela, jonesi, korrigum , lyra, phalius, purpurescens, reclinis, selousi , senegalensis, tiang, topi, ugandae.

COMMENTS: Includes korrigum ; see Ansell (1972:56). For date of publication, see Ellerman et al. (1953:201).