Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus 1758)

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 : 716

Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus 1758)

[Capra] grimmia Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 70 .

Type Locality: "Habitat in Africa"; based on a specimen seen by Grimm in the fort at Cape Town ( Thomas, 1911 a:153) so now known to be South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape Town .

Vernacular Names: Bush Duiker.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. grimmia Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. altivallis Heller 1912

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. caffra Fitzinger 1869

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. campbelliae Gray 1843

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. coronata Gray 1842

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. hindei Wroughton 1910

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. lobeliarum Lönnberg 1919

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. madoqua Rüppell 1836

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. nyansae Neumann 1905

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. orbicularis Peters 1852

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. pallidior Schwarz 1914

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. splendidula Gray 1891

Subspecies Sylvicapra grimmia subsp. steinhardti Zukowsky 1924

Distribution: Non-forested habitats in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, S, E, and N Dem. Rep. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, S Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, S Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, S Niger , Nigeria, Rwanda, Republic of Congo, Senegal, N Sierra Leone, S Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).