Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum ( Jardine, 1835 )

Petzold, Alice, Magnant, Anne-Sophie, Edderai, David, Chardonnet, Bertrand, Rigoulet, Jacques, Saint-Jalme, Michel & Hassanin, Alexandre, 2020, First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens, European Journal of Taxonomy 703, pp. 1-33 : 22

Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum ( Jardine, 1835)

Giraffa camelopardalis sennaariensis Trouessart, 1898: p.902 .

Giraffa camelopardalis congoensis Lydekker, 1903: 386 .

Giraffa camelopardalis cottoni Lydekker, 1904: 207 , fig. 1.

Diagnosis

Spots on the upper part of the fore-limbs and the thighs broken up in a number of very small and irregular ones.

Type material

Holotype

SUDAN • 1 ♂ (skull and tanned skin of a male giraffe); South of Darfur ; SMF-498 .

Paratype

SUDAN • 1 ♀ (skull and tanned skin of a female giraffe); South of Darfur ; SMF-497 .

Distribution

Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan (holotype).

Remarks

The holotype designation was based on the information provided by Rüppel (1826), who collected two specimens in North Africa. Both specimens can be meanwhile found in the collection of the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt ( Germany) listed as SMF-498 (skull and tanned skin, male): unspecified type and SMF-497 (skull and tanned skin, female): paratype.