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--> GENUS Madoqua
SPECIES Madoqua kirkii
Author: | Günther, 1880. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880: 17. | Common Name: | Kirk's Dikdik | Type Locality: | Somalia,"near Brava, in the South Somali country". | Distribution: | Kenya, N and C Tanzania, and S Somalia in East Africa; SW Angola and Namibia in Southern Africa. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Synonymy modified from Ansell (1972:64) who included cavendishi, damarensis, and thomasi; and from review by Kingswood and Kumamoto (1997, Mammalian Species, 569). Specimens whose karyology was studied by Ryder et al. (1989) and Kumamoto et al. (1994) may really represent three or more species, M. kirkii sensu stricto or M. hindei, M. cavendishi and M. damarensis. Regarded as four evolutionary species (M. kirkii, M. cavendishi, M. thomasi, and M. damarensis) by Cotterill (2003b), but thomasi grades into cavendishi and is not a separate taxon. |
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