Giraffa reticulata
de Winton, 1899
Reticulated Giraffe
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Ruminantia |
| Infraorder | : Pecora |
| Family | : Giraffidae |
| Genus | : Giraffa |
Species status
Authority citation
de Winton, W.E. 1899-08-31. On the giraffe of Somaliland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)4(21):211-212.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19208947Original name as described
Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata
Other common names
Somali Giraffe
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1897.1.30.1
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/bc475138-1ca4-48bd-8235-aba78492718eType locality
the Loroghi Mts, Kenya.
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Ethiopia · Somalia · Kenya
Taxonomy notes
split from G. camelopardalis
Taxonomy notes citation
Groves, C. P. & Grubb, P. 2011. Ungulate taxonomy. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. · Winter, S., Fennessy, J., & Janke, A. (2018). Limited introgression supports division of giraffe into four species. Ecology and evolution, 8(20), 10156-10165. · Petzold, A., & Hassanin, A. (2020). A comparative approach for species delimitation based on multiple methods of multi-locus DNA sequence analysis: A case study of the genus Giraffa (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla). PloS one, 15(2), e0217956. · Coimbra, R. T., Winter, S., Kumar, V., Koepfli, K. P., Gooley, R. M., Dobrynin, P., ... & Janke, A. (2021). Whole-genome analysis of giraffe supports four distinct species. Current Biology.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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