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SPECIES Kobus megaceros
Author: | Fitzinger, 1855. | Citation: | Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 17: 247. | Common Name: | Nile Lechwe | Type Locality: | Sudan, Upper Nile Prov., "Bahr el abiad" or according to the collector, von Heuglin (Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. Germ. Nat. Curios., Abhand. 30, part 2, p. 14 [1863]), "am Sobat, Bhar ghasál und untern Kir" (Bahr el Abiad or White Nile, Bahr el Ghazal, Kir River or lower Bahr el Jebel, and Sobat River); restricted to "Mouth of the Bahr el Ghazal at its junction with the White Nile" (Roosevelt and Heller, 1914:519). | Distribution: | S Sudan, W Ethiopia. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | |
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