Taurotragus derbianus (Gray, 1847)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 403

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scientific name	Taurotragus derbianus (Gray, 1847)
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Taurotragus derbianus (Gray, 1847) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 20:286.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gambia .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly, Gambia to S Sudan and NW Uganda; now in Senegal to Guinea and Cameroon to S Sudan; may survive in S Mali and NE Nigeria.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as T. d. derbianus ; IUCN - Vulnerable as Tragelaphus derbianus gigas .

SYNONYMS: cameroonensis, colini, congolanus, gigas .

COMMENTS: Regarded as conspecific with T. oryx by Haltenorth (1963:86), but usually treated as a full species; see Ansell (1972:26).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Artiodactyla
Family	Bovidae
Genus	Taurotragus

Taurotragus derbianus (Gray, 1847)

Peter Grubb 1993

1993

Taurotragus derbianus (Gray, 1847)

Gray 1847: 286

1847

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