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SPECIES Litocranius walleri

Author:Brooke, 1878.
Actual Date:1879
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 929, pl. 56.
Common Name:Gerenuk
Type Locality:"Mainland of Africa, north of the island of Zanzibar, about lat. 30°S and long. 38°E" and therefore apparently in Kenya, but shown to be correctly "Somalia, coast near Juba River" by Sclater and Thomas (1898) and Moreau et al. (1946) and more specifically, the vicinity of Chisimayo (Grubb, 2002).
Distribution:E Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, NE Tanzania.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).
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