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--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Bovidae
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--> GENUS Tragelaphus
SPECIES Tragelaphus eurycerus
Author: | Ogilby, 1836. | Actual Date: | 1837 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 120. | Common Name: | Bongo | Type Locality: | "Their origin is unknown, but I have reason to believe they [the syntypes] came from Western Africa". | Distribution: | Rain forest of W Africa in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo; C Africa in SE Cameroon, Central African Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, NE Gabon, Republic of Congo, SW Sudan, Uganda (extinct); and in S Kenya. Occurrence in Equatorial Guinea (Mbini) questionable. | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN – Endangered as T. e. isaaci, otherwise Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Formerly placed in Boocercus. Reviewed by Ralls (1978, Mammalian Species, 111). |
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