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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER HYRACOIDEA
--> FAMILY Procaviidae
--> GENUS Procavia
SPECIES Procavia capensis
| Author: | Pallas, 1766. | | Citation: | Misc. Zool.: 30. | | Common Name: | Rock Hyrax. | | Type Locality: | South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope. | | Distribution: | Sub-Saharan and NE Africa (a line from Senegal through S Algeria and Libya, Egypt to southern most tip of Africa), portion of the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel), and the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen); isolated mountains in Algeria and Libya. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | See Allen (1939), Meester et al. (1986), Olds and Shoshani (1982, Mammalian Species, 171). |
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