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--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Reduncinae
--> GENUS Kobus
SPECIES Kobus vardonii
| Author: | Livingstone, 1857. | | Citation: | Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: 256. | | Common Name: | Puku | | Type Locality: | "Thirty or forty miles above Libonta"; since identified as Zambia, Barotseland, Chobe Valley, near Libonda at 40°0'S, 23°15'E. | | Distribution: | NE Angola, N Botswana, S Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), S Tanzania, Zambia, and N Zimbabwe (vagrant). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | Included in kob by Haltenorth (1963:92) but Ansell (1972:40), whose subspecies are followed here, treated kob and vardoni as separate species in a superspecies. Cotterill (2003a) treated senganus as an evolutionary species. |
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