Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 676

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11337206

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scientific name

Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824
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Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824 View in CoL

Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824 View in CoL , Travels in Interior of Southern Africa, Vol. 2: 278 (footnote) [1824].

Type Locality: Apparently "Kosi Fountain", but lectotype came from South Africa, North West Prov., Vryburg Dist., "Chue Spring, Maadji Mtn [Klein Heuningvlei]"; see Grubb (1999).

Vernacular Names: Blue Wildebeest.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. taurinus Burchell 1824

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. albojubatus Thomas 1892

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. cooksoni Blaine 1914

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. johnstoni P. L. Sclater 1896

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. mearnsi Heller 1913

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, S Kenya, Malawi (extinct), Mozambique, Namibia, NE South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: For year of publication see Ellerman et al. (1953:205). Synonymy follows Ansell (1972:51). Status of babaulti discussed by Scoazec (1996). Cotterill (2003 a) listed johnstoni and cooksoni as species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Bovidae

SubFamily

Alcelaphinae

Genus

Connochaetes

Loc

Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Connochaetes taurinus

Burchell 1824: 278 (footnote) [1824]
1824
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