Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 369-372 : 370

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scientific name

Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758
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Equus zebra Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:74.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, SW Cape Prov., Paardeburg, near Malmesbury .

DISTRIBUTION: S Angola, Namibia, SW and SC Cape Prov. ( South Africa). Now much reduced in numbers and, in South Africa, confined to a few nature reserves.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as E. z. zebra, Appendix II as E. z. hartmannae ; U.S. ESA - Endangered as E. z. zebra, Threatened as E. z. hartmannae ; IUCN - Endangered as E. z. zebra, Vulnerable as E. z. hartmannae .

SYNONYMS: frederici, greatheadi, hartmannae , indica , matschiei, montanus , penricei .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Penzhorn (1988, Mammalian Species, 314).

Penzhorn, B. L. 1988. Equus zebra. Mammalian Species, 314: 1 - 7.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Perissodactyla

Family

Equidae

Genus

Equus