Giraffa camelopardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:66.

TYPE LOCALITY: "AEthiopia et Sennar", restricted to Sudan, Sennar, by Harper (1940:322) .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly, Gambia and Senegal to Ethiopia and Somalia, south to Central African Republic, NE Zaire, Uganda and Tanzania; E and SW Zambia; S Angola, Zimbabwe and S Mozambique to South Africa, mostly north of the Orange River. Distribution now much restricted; in W Africa still present at least until recently in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, NE Nigeria and N Cameroon; in southern Africa, now ranging no further south than N Namibia, Botswana and E Transvaal (South Africa).

SYNONYMS: aethiopica, angolensis, antiquorum, australis, biturigum, capensis, congoensis, cottoni, giraffa, hagenbecki, infumata, maculata, nigrescens, peralta, renatae, reticulata, rothschildi, schillingsi, senaariensis, thornicrofti, tippelskirchi, wardi .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Dagg (1971, Mammalian Species, 5).