Equus asinus Linnaeus, 1758

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

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scientific name	Equus asinus Linnaeus, 1758
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Equus asinus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:73.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Southern Asia" (domesticated stock) .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly N. W. Algeria, adjacent Morocco and Tunisia; Egypt; perhaps Arabia; N. E. Sudan; survives only in N.E. Ethiopia and N. Somalia; domesticated worldwide.

COMMENT: Ansell, 1974, Part 14:6, recommended africanus replace asinus , because domesticated stock was used for the type material; also see Corbet, 1978:195.

PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as E. africanus (= asinus ).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301418001001001001.