Equus quagga

P. Boddaert, 1785

Plains Zebra

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Perissodactyla
Suborder : Hippomorpha
Family : Equidae
Genus : Equus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus Animalium. Volumen I. Sistens quadrupedia huc usque nota, eorumque varietates. C.R. Hake, Rotterdam, 174 pp.

Original name as described

Equus quagga

Other common names

Common Zebra · Painted Quagga · Burchell's Zebra · Chapman's Zebra · Crawshay's Zebra · Damara Zebra · Grant's Zebra · Quagga · Zambezi Zebra

Type locality

South Africa, south of Vaal River.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

South Sudan · Somalia? · Ethiopia · Kenya · Uganda · Rwanda · Tanzania · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Angola · Namibia · Zimbabwe · Botswana · South Africa · Eswatini

Taxonomy notes

includes burchellii

Taxonomy notes citation

Leonard, J. A., Rohland, N., Glaberman, S., Fleischer, R. C., Caccone, A., & Hofreiter, M. (2005). A rapid loss of stripes: the evolutionary history of the extinct quagga. Biology Letters, 1(3), 291-295. · Groves, C. P. & Grubb, P. 2011. Ungulate taxonomy. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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