Equus burchelli (Gray, 1824)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 308-311 : 308

Equus burchelli (Gray, 1824) . Zool. J., 1:247.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Bechuanaland, Little Klibbolikhoni Fontein .

DISTRIBUTION: Blue Nile to Orange River, including S.W. Somalia and S.W. Ethiopia, to S. Africa to S.E. Zaire and S. and E. Angola.

COMMENT: Does not include the extinct species, quagga ; see Bennett, 1980, Syst. Zool., 29:272-287; Groves and Willoughby, 1981, Mammalia, 45:321-354. Many previous workers regarded quagga and burchelli as conspecific; see Rau, 1978, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 77. At least 21 synonyms of burchelli exist, most based on variations in stripe pattern. Cabrera, 1936, J. Mamm., 17:89-112, synonymized most forms and demonstrated a cline in stripe pattern. Reviewed by Grubb, 1981, Mamm. Species, 157:1- 9.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301418001001002001.