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SPECIES Cephalophus nigrifrons
Author: | Gray, 1871. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871: 598. | Common Name: | Black-fronted Duiker | Type Locality: | "Gaboon" (Gabon). | Distribution: | Rainforest zone in N Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini), Gabon, S Nigeria, and Republic of Congo; upland forest in Albertine Rift including Ruwenzori Mtns (Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo, Rwanda, Uganda), Mt. Elgon (Uganda-Kenya border), Aberdare Range (Kenya), and Mt. Kenya (Kenya). | Status: | IUCN – Endangered as C. n. rubidus, otherwise Lower Risk (nt) as C. nigrifrons. | Comments: | Treated as at least four evolutionary species (C. nigrifrons, C. fosteri, C. hooki, and C. rubidus) by Cotterill (2003b). Cephalophus rubidus also regarded as a species separate from C. nigrifrons by Kingdon (1982:292) and Jansen van Vuuren and Robinson (2001), but status revised by Grubb and Groves (2002 and in prep.). |
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