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--> SUBFAMILY Cephalophinae
--> GENUS Cephalophus
SPECIES Cephalophus rufilatus
| Author: | Gray, 1846. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 18: 166. | | Common Name: | Red-flanked Duiker | | Type Locality: | "Sierra Leone, Village of Waterloo". | | Distribution: | Savanna zone in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, NE Dem. Rep. Congo, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, S Mali, S Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, SW Sudan, Togo, and NW Uganda. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | Known from a specimen collected by Adanson in Senegal as "la grimme" (Buffon, 1764:307, 329), and described as "Antilope grimmia" by Desmarest (1816c:191) from Coast of Guinea, based on misidentifications of this species as Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus, 1758). |
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