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SPECIES Tragelaphus eurycerus

Author:Ogilby, 1836.
Actual Date:1837
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 120.
Common Name:Bongo
Type Locality:"Their origin is unknown, but I have reason to believe they [the syntypes] came from Western Africa".
Distribution:Rain forest of W Africa in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo; C Africa in SE Cameroon, Central African Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, NE Gabon, Republic of Congo, SW Sudan, Uganda (extinct); and in S Kenya. Occurrence in Equatorial Guinea (Mbini) questionable.
Status:CITES – Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN – Endangered as T. e. isaaci, otherwise Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:Formerly placed in Boocercus. Reviewed by Ralls (1978, Mammalian Species, 111).
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