Cephalophus silvicultor (Afzelius 1815)

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 : 714

Cephalophus silvicultor (Afzelius 1815)

[Antilope] silvicultrix Afzelius 1815 , Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Uppsala, 7: 265.

Type Locality: "Habitat in montibus Sierrae Leone & regionibus susuensium fluvios Pongas & Quia adjacentibus frequens"; since restricted to Sierra Leone, vicinity of Freetown ( Grubb et al., 1998).

Vernacular Names: Yellow-backed Duiker.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor subsp. silvicultor Afzelius 1815

Subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor subsp. curticeps Grubb and Groves 2002

Subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor subsp. longiceps Gray 1865

Subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor subsp. ruficrista Bocage 1869

Distribution: Dense vegetation in N Angola, Benin, S Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea ( Mbini), Gabon, Gambia (former occurrence doubtful), Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bisssau, W Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda (extinct?), S Senegal, Sierra Leone, SW Sudan, Togo, W Uganda, and Zambia.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Reviewed by Lumpkin and Kranz (1984, Mammalian Species, 225, as Cephalophus sylvicultor , an incorrect subsequent spelling).