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--> GENUS Ourebia
SPECIES Ourebia ourebi
| Author: | Zimmermann, 1783. | | Citation: | Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 3: 268. | | Common Name: | Oribi | | Type Locality: | "Bewohnt die Cafferen" (South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov., Kaffraria); since restricted to one of the syntypical localities: South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov., Somerset East Dist., Bruintjieshoogte (Grubb, 1999). | | Distribution: | Angola, Benin, N Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi (extinct?), Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, N Côte d’Ivoire, N and SE Dem. Rep. Congo, N Eritrea, W Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, S Mali, Mozambique, SW Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, S Senegal, N Sierra Leone, S Somalia, E South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | | Status: | IUCN – Extinct as O. o. keniae, Vulnerable as O. o. haggardi, otherwise Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | Synonymy modified from Ansell (1972:66). Cotterill (2003b) regarded haggardi and perhaps hastata as evolutionary species. |
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