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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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