Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas 1766)

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 : 698

Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas 1766)

[Antilope] scripta Pallas 1766 , Misc. Zool.: 8.

Type Locality: No locality cited but based on "Le Guib" of Buffon, from " Sénégal ".

Vernacular Names: Bushbuck.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. scriptus Pallas 1766

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. bor Heuglin 1877

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. decula Rüppell 1835

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. fasciatus Pocock 1900

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. knutsoni Lönnberg 1905

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. meneliki Neumann 1902

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. ornatus Pocock 1900

Subspecies Tragelaphus scriptus subsp. sylvaticus Sparrman 1780

Distribution: Savanna and secondary forest in Angola, Benin, N and E Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea ( Mbini), N Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, S Mali, S Mauritania, Mozambiqiue, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), SW Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, S Somalia, E and S South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Not recorded from Lesotho ( Lynch, 1994).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subspecific systematics modified from Ansell (1972:24) and Grubb (1985, 2000 b); the species comprises decula division (includes also meneliki), nominate scriptus division (includes also bor and knutsoni), and sylvaticus division (includes also fasciatus and ornatus).