Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata de Winton, 1899

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 : 23

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scientific name	Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata de Winton, 1899
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Treatment

Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata de Winton, 1899 View in CoL

Giraffa camelopardalis australis Rhoads, 1896: 518 .

Giraffa hagenbecki Knottnerus-Meyer, 1910: 800 .

Giraffa reticulata nigrescens Lydekker, 1911: 484 .

Diagnosis

Deep liver-red colour with a coarse network of narrow white lines, one ES in the Cytb gene: 795 C=>T; one ES in the CR: 94 C=>T.

Type material

Holotype

KENYA • 1 specimen (skull, scalp and piece of neck skin); East of Loroghi mountains; NHMUK-1897.1.30.1.

Distribution

Southern Ethiopia, Kenya (holotype), Somalia.

References

de Winton W. D. 1899. On the giraffe of Somaliland (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 (4): 211 - 212. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939908678186

Knottnerus-Meyer T. 1910. Eine neue Giraffe aus dem sudlichen Abessinien. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 797 - 800.

Lydekker R. 1911. Two undescribed giraffes. Nature 87: 484. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / 087484 c 0

Rhoads S. N. 1896. Mammals collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his expedition to Lake Rudolf, Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1896: 517 - 546.