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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER TUBULIDENTATA
--> FAMILY Orycteropodidae
--> GENUS Orycteropus
SPECIES Orycteropus afer
| Author: | Pallas, 1766. | | Citation: | Misc. Zool.: 64. | | Common Name: | Aardvark | | Type Locality: | South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope. | | Distribution: | Savannah zones of West Africa to E Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea; Kenya; Somalia; N and W Uganda to Tanzania; Rwanda; N, E, and C Dem. Rep. Congo; W Angola; Namibia; Botswana; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Mozambique; South Africa. | | Status: | IUCN – Least Concern. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Melton (1976), Pocock (1924), and Shoshani et al. (1988, Mammalian Species, 300). Seventeen poorly defined subspecies are recognized (Meester, 1972b; Meester et al., 1986). |
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