Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766)

Duane A. Schutter, 1993, Order Tubulidentata, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 375-375 : 375

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7278955
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scientific name	Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766)
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Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766) View in CoL . Mise. Zool., p. 64.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope .

DISTRIBUTION: Savannah zones of West Africa to E Sudan and Ethiopia; Kenya; S Somalia; N and W Uganda to Tanzania; Rwanda; N, E, and C Zaire; W Angola; Namibia; Botswana; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Mozambique; South Africa.

SYNONYMS: adametzi, aethiopicus, albicaudus, angolensis, erikssoni, faradjius, haussanus, kordofanicus, ladentanni, leptodon, matschiei, observandus, ruvanensis, senegalensis, somalicus, wardi, wertheri.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Melton (1976), Pocock (1924), and Shoshani et al. (1988, Mammalian Species, 300).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Tubulidentata
Family	Orycteropodidae
Genus	Orycteropus