Giraffa tippelskirchi thornicrofti Lydekker, 1911

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 : 25

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scientific name	Giraffa tippelskirchi thornicrofti Lydekker, 1911
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Diagnosis

Low and conical anterior horn, grey colour and scattered spotting of the sides of the face, fawn shanks, three ES in the CR: 39 A=>G, 272 T=>C, 336 T=>A; two ES in the IGF2B1 intron: 60 C=>T, 304 G =>A.

Type material

Holotype

ZAMBIA • 1 specimen (skin); Petauke district; NHMUK-1910.10.17.1 .

Distribution

Luangwa Valley in Zambia.

References

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Artiodactyla
Family	Giraffidae
Genus	Giraffa

Specimens