Equus burchellii Gray 1824

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Equus burchellii Gray 1824

Equus burchellii Gray 1824 , Zool. J., 1: 247.

Type Locality: "The flat parts near the Cape ", now identified as South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Kuruman Dist., Little Klibbolikhonni Fontein ( Grubb, 1999:16).

Vernacular Names: Burchell's Zebra.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Equus burchellii subsp. burchellii Gray 1824

Subspecies Equus burchellii subsp. antiquorum C. H. Smith 1841

Subspecies Equus burchellii subsp. boehmi Matschie 1892

Subspecies Equus burchellii subsp. crawshaii De Winton 1896

Subspecies Equus burchellii subsp. kaokensis Zukowsky 1924

Subspecies Equus burchellii subsp. zambeziensis Trouessart 1898

Distribution: S and E Angola, N and E Botswana, SE Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, N Namibia, SE Sudan, SW Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, S Somalia, South Africa (N KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga Provs.; formerly more widespread, S to Orange River), Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct as E. b. burchellii, Data Deficient as E. b. chapmani, E. b. crawshayi, and E. b. zambeziensis, Least Concern as E. b. antiquorum and E. b. boehmi.

Discussion: Reviewed by Grubb (1981, Mammalian Species, 157). Species status controversial. A species separate from E. quagga ; see Gentry (1975), Eisenmann and Turlot (1978), Bennett (1980), Klein and Cruz-Uribe (1999), and Eisenmann and Brink (2000). Many previous workers regarded quagga and burchellii as conspecific; see Rau (1978) – and they were recently regarded as conspecific by Groves (1985 b). Subspecies based on Ansell (1974 a) and L. Schlawe and W. Wozniak (in litt., 1991). Equus wardi Ridgeway, 1910 is a hybrid between E. burchellii and E. zebra ( Barnaby, 2001; Pocock, 1909 b; Rzasnicki, 1938).