Oreotragus oreotragus (Zimmermann 1783)

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Oreotragus oreotragus (Zimmermann 1783)

[Antilope] oreotragus Zimmermann 1783 , Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 3: 269.

Type Locality: "Die Caffern"; now known to be South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape Dist., False Bay ( Grubb, 1999).

Vernacular Names: Klipspringer.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Oreotragus oreotragus subsp. oreotragus Zimmermann 1783

Subspecies Oreotragus oreotragus subsp. aceratos Noack 1899

Subspecies Oreotragus oreotragus subsp. saltatrixoides Wagner 1855

Subspecies Oreotragus oreotragus subsp. stevensoni Roberts 1946

Subspecies Oreotragus oreotragus subsp. tyleri Hinton 1921

Distribution: SW Angola, E Botswana, Burundi (extinct?), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, C Nigeria, Central African Republic (NE and NW only), Dem. Rep. Congo ( SE Shaba Prov. and formerly in western Rift Valley), Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, N Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, NE and SE Sudan, Tanzania, NE and SW Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Former or present occurrence in Lesotho unconfirmed ( Lynch, 1994).

Conservation: IUCN –Endangered as O. o. porteousi, otherwise Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Systematics considerably modified from Ansell (1972:61). Kingdon (1982) synonymised aureus with schillngsi (here followed) and implied that stevensoni, transvaalensis and tyleri are synonymous with nominate oreotragus . Cotterill (2003 b) recognised porteousi and schillingsi as evolutionary species.