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SPECIES Equus burchellii
Author: | Gray, 1824. | Citation: | Zool. J., 1: 247. | Common Name: | Burchell's Zebra | Type Locality: | "The flat parts near the Cape", now identified as South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Kuruman Dist., Little Klibbolikhonni Fontein (Grubb, 1999:16). | Distribution: | S and E Angola, N and E Botswana, SE Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, N Namibia, SE Sudan, SW Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, S Somalia, South Africa (N KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga Provs.; formerly more widespread, S to Orange River), Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | Status: | IUCN – Extinct as E. b. burchellii, Data Deficient as E. b. chapmani, E. b. crawshayi, and E. b. zambeziensis, Least Concern as E. b. antiquorum and E. b. boehmi. | Comments: | Reviewed by Grubb (1981, Mammalian Species, 157). Species status controversial. A species separate from E. quagga; see Gentry (1975), Eisenmann and Turlot (1978), Bennett (1980), Klein and Cruz-Uribe (1999), and Eisenmann and Brink (2000). Many previous workers regarded quagga and burchellii as conspecific; see Rau (1978) – and they were recently regarded as conspecific by Groves (1985b). Subspecies based on Ansell (1974a) and L. Schlawe and W. Wozniak (in litt., 1991). Equus wardi Ridgeway, 1910 is a hybrid between E. burchellii and E. zebra (Barnaby, 2001; Pocock, 1909b; Rzasnicki, 1938). |
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