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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Antilopinae
--> GENUS Neotragus
SPECIES Neotragus pygmaeus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 69. | | Common Name: | Royal Antelope | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Guinea, India"; restricted to "Guinea" (West Africa) by Thomas (1911a:152). | | Distribution: | Forest zone of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Pallas (1767:6, 1777:18) recognised two different species, Tragulus pygmaeus = Neotragus pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1758), misidentified as a tragulid, and Antilope pygmaea Pallas, 1777. Both have types that are royal antelopes and therefore are both homonyms and synonyms. Gmelin in Linnaeus (1788:173, 191) recognised the same two species as Moschus pygmaeus and Antilope pygmaea and Erxleben (1777:278) called them M. pygmaeus and A. regia, speculating that they may be female and male respectively of the same species. |
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