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--> SUBFAMILY Aepycerotinae
--> GENUS Aepyceros
SPECIES Aepyceros melampus
Author: | Lichtenstein, 1812. | Citation: | Reisen Sudl. Africa, 2: pl. 4 opp. p. 544. | Common Name: | Impala | Type Locality: | "Koossi-Thale", now identified as South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Kuruman Dist., Khosis (Grubb, 1999). | Distribution: | S Angola, N and E Botswana, Burundi (extinct?), Dem. Rep. Congo (SE Shaba Prov.), Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, N Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa (North-West, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga Provs. and KwaZulu-Natal; formerly in N Northern Cape Prov.), Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda (marginally in NE and SW), Zambia, Zimbabwe. | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered as A. m. petersi; IUCN – Vulnerable as A. m. petersi, otherwise Lower Risk (cd). | Comments: | Synonymy and inclusion of petersi follows Ansell (1972:57). Nersting and Arctander (2001) found petersi haplotypes to be strongly isolated from haplotypyes of populations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and N Botswana. Cotterill (2003a) considered petersi to be an evolutionary species. |
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