Cephalophus nigrifrons Gray 1871
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Cephalophus nigrifrons Gray 1871 View in CoL
Cephalophus nigrifrons Gray 1871 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871: 598.
Type Locality: "Gaboon" ( Gabon).
Vernacular Names: Black-fronted Duiker.
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Subspecies Cephalophus nigrifrons subsp. nigrifrons Gray 1871
Subspecies Cephalophus nigrifrons subsp. fosteri St. Leger 1934
Subspecies Cephalophus nigrifrons subsp. hooki St. Leger 1934
Subspecies Cephalophus nigrifrons subsp. hypoxanthus Grubb and Groves 2002
Subspecies Cephalophus nigrifrons subsp. kivuensis Lönnberg 1919
Subspecies Cephalophus nigrifrons subsp. rubidus Thomas 1901
Distribution: Rainforest zone in N Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea ( Mbini), Gabon, S Nigeria, and Republic of Congo; upland forest in Albertine Rift including Ruwenzori Mtns ( Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo, Rwanda, Uganda), Mt. Elgon (Uganda-Kenya border), Aberdare Range ( Kenya), and Mt. Kenya ( Kenya).
Conservation: IUCN – Endangered as C. n. rubidus , otherwise Lower Risk (nt) as C. nigrifrons .
Discussion: Treated as at least four evolutionary species ( C. nigrifrons , C. fosteri , C. hooki , and C. rubidus ) by Cotterill (2003 b). Cephalophus rubidus also regarded as a species separate from C. nigrifrons by Kingdon (1982:292) and Jansen van Vuuren and Robinson (2001), but status revised by Grubb and Groves (2002 and in prep.).
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Cephalophus nigrifrons Gray 1871
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005 |
Cephalophus nigrifrons
Gray 1871: 598 |