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SPECIES Tragelaphus scriptus

Author:Pallas, 1766.
Citation:Misc. Zool.: 8.
Common Name:Bushbuck
Type Locality:No locality cited but based on "Le Guib" of Buffon, from "Sénégal".
Distribution:Savanna and secondary forest in Angola, Benin, N and E Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini), N Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, S Mali, S Mauritania, Mozambiqiue, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), SW Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, S Somalia, E and S South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Not recorded from Lesotho (Lynch, 1994).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Subspecific systematics modified from Ansell (1972:24) and Grubb (1985, 2000b); the species comprises decula division (includes also meneliki), nominate scriptus division (includes also bor and knutsoni), and sylvaticus division (includes also fasciatus and ornatus).
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SUBSPECIES scriptus

SUBSPECIES bor

SUBSPECIES decula

SUBSPECIES fasciatus

SUBSPECIES knutsoni

SUBSPECIES meneliki

SUBSPECIES ornatus

SUBSPECIES sylvaticus

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