Redunca redunca

(Pallas, 1767)

Bohor Reedbuck

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Pecora
Family : Bovidae
Subfamily : Antilopinae
Tribe : Reduncini
Genus : Redunca

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1767. Spicilegia Zoologica. Fasciculus primus. Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin, 44 pp.

Original name as described

Antilope redunca

Other common names

Nagor Reedbuck · Senegal Reedbuck · Western Reedbuck · Nigerian Reedbuck · Sudan Reedbuck · Common Reedbuck · Western Bohor Reedbuck · Sudan Bohor Reedbuck · Eastern Bohor Reedbuck · Abyssinian Bohor Reedbuck · Sudan Bohor Reedbuck · Nigerian Bohor Reedbuck

Type locality

Senegal, Goree Island.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Mauritania · Guinea · Mali · Burkina Faso · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Chad · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Sudan · South Sudan · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Uganda · Kenya · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania

Taxonomy notes

includes bohor, cottoni, and nigeriensis, which were considered distinct by Groves & Grubb 2011; for additional information regarding the MDD's decision to not follow the Groves & Grubb 2011 Ungulate Taxonomy, see 'Subjective decisions' on the 'About' tab

Taxonomy notes citation

Groves, C. P. & Grubb, P. 2011. Ungulate taxonomy. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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