Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 721

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11336905

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scientific name

Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857
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Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857 View in CoL

Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857 View in CoL , Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: 256.

Type Locality: "Thirty or forty miles above Libonta"; since identified as Zambia, Barotseland, Chobe Valley, near Libonda at 40°0'S, 23°15'E. GoogleMaps

Vernacular Names: Puku.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. vardonii Livingstone 1857

Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. senganus P. L. Sclater and Thomas 1897

Distribution: NE Angola, N Botswana, S Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), S Tanzania, Zambia, and N Zimbabwe (vagrant).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Included in kob by Haltenorth (1963:92) but Ansell (1972:40), whose subspecies are followed here, treated kob and vardoni as separate species in a superspecies. Cotterill (2003 a) treated senganus as an evolutionary species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Bovidae

Genus

Kobus

Loc

Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Kobus vardonii

Livingstone 1857: 256
1857
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