Equus quagga Boddaert 1785

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 629-636 : 632

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scientific name	Equus quagga Boddaert 1785
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Equus quagga Boddaert 1785 , Elench. Anim.: 160.

Type Locality: "Caffrorum regione"; locality of paralectotype now identified as South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Colesburg Dist., Seekoei River ( Grubb, 1999).

Vernacular Names: Quagga.

Synonyms: Equus couagga Desmarest 1822 ; Equus danielli Pocock 1904 ; Equus greyi Lydekker 1902 ; Equus lorenzi Lydekker 1902 ; Equus qouagga Lesson 1827 ; Equus quaccha Gray 1827 ; Equus trouessarti Camerano 1908 .

Distribution: Formerly South Africa, south of the Orange-Vaal Rivers.

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct.

Discussion: See comments under burchellii . Last specimen, a captive, died in 1872.