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--> GENUS Connochaetes
SPECIES Connochaetes taurinus
| Author: | Burchell, 1824. | | Citation: | Travels in Interior of Southern Africa, 2: 278(footnote) [1824]. | | Common Name: | Blue Wildebeest | | Type Locality: | Apparently "Kosi Fountain", but lectotype came from South Africa, North West Prov., Vryburg Dist., "Chue Spring, Maadji Mtn [Klein Heuningvlei]"; see Grubb (1999). | | Distribution: | Angola, Botswana, S Kenya, Malawi (extinct), Mozambique, Namibia, NE South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | For year of publication see Ellerman et al. (1953:205). Synonymy follows Ansell (1972:51). Status of babaulti discussed by Scoazec (1996). Cotterill (2003a) listed johnstoni and cooksoni as species. |
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