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--> GENUS Proteles
SPECIES Proteles cristata
| Author: | Sparrman, 1783. | | Citation: | Resa Goda-Hopps-Udden., I, 1: 581. | | Common Name: | Aardwolf | | Type Locality: | English translation (Sparrman, 1786) of original locality: "Agter-Bruntjes hoogte...which takes in the upper part of Kleine Visch-rivier, and is separated from Camdebo by Bruntjes hoogtens..."; listed in G. M. Allen (1939) as "Near Little Fish River, Somerset East, Cape Colony" [South Africa]. | | Distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Botswana); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Reviewed by Koehler and Richardson (1990) and Jenks and Werdelin (1998) who demonstrated that subspecies are not well defined and probably should not be recognized. Synonyms according to Jenks and Werdelin (1998). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
canescens Shortridge and Carter, 1938
harrisoni Rothschild, 1902
hyenoides (Desmarest, 1821)
lalandii I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824
pallidior Cabrera, 1910
septentrionalis Rothschild, 1902
termes Heller, 1913
transvaalensis Roberts, 1932
typicus A. Smith, 1834
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