Redunca arundinum (Boddaert 1785)

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 : 721

Redunca arundinum (Boddaert 1785)

[Antilope] arundinum Boddaert 1785 , Elench. Anim., Vol. 1: 141.

Type Locality: "Habitat ad Cap. Bn. Sp." (Cape of Good Hope); since selected as South Africa, Free State, Bethulie, based on known collecting localities of syntypes ( Grubb, 1999:25).

Vernacular Names: Southern Reedbuck.

Distribution: Angola, N and E Botswana, S Gabon, S Dem. Rep. Congo, Lesotho (vagrant), Malawi, Mozambique, N Namibia, S Republic of Congo, E South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Roberts' (1951:292) restriction of the type locality to Bathurst Dist. was not based on a syntype locality; see Grubb (1999:25).