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--> GENUS Litocranius
SPECIES Litocranius walleri
| Author: | Brooke, 1878. | | Actual Date: | 1879 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 929, pl. 56. | | Common Name: | Gerenuk | | Type Locality: | "Mainland of Africa, north of the island of Zanzibar, about lat. 30°S and long. 38°E" and therefore apparently in Kenya, but shown to be correctly "Somalia, coast near Juba River" by Sclater and Thomas (1898) and Moreau et al. (1946) and more specifically, the vicinity of Chisimayo (Grubb, 2002). | | Distribution: | E Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, NE Tanzania. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | |
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