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SPECIES Syncerus caffer
| Author: | Sparrman, 1779. | | Citation: | K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 40: 79. | | Common Name: | African Buffalo | | Type Locality: | "Seecov Rivier" and "Akter Brunties hoogte", now restricted to South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov., Uitenhage district, Sunday River, Algoa Bay. | | Distribution: | Rain forest and savanna of Angola, Benin, N and E Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini; extinct on Bioko), N Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia (extinct), Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, S Mali, Mozambique, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), SW Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, S Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | Ansell (1972:19) compared subspecific systematics of different authors, here modified from Schouteden (1945). The species can be partitioned into the nominate caffer division (including also aequinoctialis) and the nanus division (including also brachyceros); phylogeography indicates similar haplotypes for nanus and cf. brachyceros, which differ from those of nominate caffer (Van Hooft et al., 2002); matthewsi is probably of polyphyletic origin; cottoni is based on a specimen of nominate caffer showing characters reflecting gene flow between caffer and nanus. Bos pegasus C. H. Smith, 1827 has been identified as an African buffalo, but is probably a sheep (Blyth, 1871). |
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