Giraffa camelopardalis

Julian Fenessy, Tobias Bidon, Friederike Reuss, Vikas Kumar, Paul Elkan, Maria A. Nilsson, Melita Vamberger, Uwe Fritz & Axel Janke, 2016, Multi-locus analyses reveal four giraffe species instead of one, Current Biology 2016, pp. 1-7 : 3

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.036
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5672880
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/29525B1C-2A4A-FF8B-FCC1-FBCBFA40FB33
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Giraffa camelopardalis
status

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(4) northern giraffe ( G. camelopardalis View in CoL ),

which includes Nubian giraffe ( G. c. camelopardalis )

and its new synonym, Rothschild’s giraffe ( G. c. rothschildi ),

with Kordofan giraffe ( G. c. antiquorum )

and West African giraffe ( G. c. peralta )

as distinct subspecies. In the face of small population sizes, especially for the West African giraffe ( Table 1 View Table 1 ), concerted conservation efforts are necessary for preserving these genetically differentiated subspecies.