Leptailurus serval (Schreber 1776)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 540

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Leptailurus serval (Schreber 1776) View in CoL

[Felis] serval Schreber 1776 View in CoL , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 3, 16: pl. 108 [1776]; see also text 3 (23): 407 [1777].

Type Locality: "Ostindien und Tibet in gebirgegen Gegenden, vielleicht auch am Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung und dem heissern Afrika"; restricted by J. A. Allen (1924) to the " Cape region of South Africa ".

Vernacular Names: Serval.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. serval Schreber 1776

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. beirae Wroughton 1910

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. brachyurus Wagner 1841

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. constantinus Forster 1780

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. faradjius J. A. Allen 1924

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. ferrarii de Beaux 1924

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. hamiltoni Roberts 1931

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. hindei Wroughton 1910

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. kempi Wroughton 1910

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. kivuensis Lönnberg 1919

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. lipostictus Pocock 1907

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. lonnbergi Cabrera 1910

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. mababiensis Roberts 1932

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. pantastictus Pocock 1907

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. phillipsi G. M. Allen 1914

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. pococki Cabrera 1910

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. robertsi Ellerman, Morrison-Scott and Hayman 1953

Subspecies Leptailurus serval subsp. togoensis Matschie 1893

Distribution: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho (?), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Believed to be extirpated in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as L. s. constantina [sic]; IUCN – Endangered as L. s. constantinus, otherwise Least Concern.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Smithers (1971).

References

Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281.

de Beaux, O. 1924. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Potamochoerus Gray. Zoologische Jahrbucher, 47: 379 - 504.

Ellerman, J. R., T. C. S. Morrison-Scott, and R. W. Hayman. 1953. Southern African mammals 1758 to 1951: A reclassification. British Museum (Natural History), London, 363 pp.

Forster, G. 1780. Herrn von Buffon's Naturgeschichte der vierfussigen Thiere. Mit vermehrungen, aus dem franzosischen ubersetzt [vol. 6 in the 23 vol. work of Buffon's 1772 - 1801]. J. Pauli, Berlin, vol. 6 [publ. in 1780].

Matschie, P. 1893. Ueber anscheinend neue Afrikanische saugethiere (Leimacomys g. n.). Sitzungs-berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 4: 107 - 109.

Roberts, A. 1931. New forms of South African mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 14: 221 - 236.

Smithers, R. H. N. 1971. The mammals of Botswana. Museum Memoir, National Museums of Rhodesia, Salisbury, 4: 1 - 340.

Wroughton, R. C. 1910. On the nomenclature of the Indian hedgehogs. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 20: 80 - 82.