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Proteles cristatus

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Description

Proteles cristatus (Sparrman, 1783). Resa Goda-Hopps-Udden. I., 1783:581.

TYPE LOCALITY: English translation (Sparrman, 1786) of original locality: "Agter-Bruntjes hoogte...which takes in the upper part of Kleine Visch-rivier, and is separated from Camdebo by Bruntjes hoogtens..."; listed in Allen (1939) as "Near Little Fish River, Somerset East, Cape Colony" [South Africa].

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Botswana).

SYNONYMS: canescens Shortridge and Carter, 1938; harrisoni Rothschild, 1902; hyenoides Desmarest, 1822; lalandii I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824; pallidior Cabrera, 1910; septentrionalis Rothschild, 1902; termes Heller, 1913; transvaalensis Roberts, 1932; typicus A. Smith, 1833.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Koehler and Richardson (1990, Mammalian Species, 363).

Notes

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 309, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Hyaenidae
Genus
Proteles
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Sparrman
Species
cristatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Proteles cristatus (Sparrman, 1783) sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
  • Shortridge, G. C., and T. D. Carter. 1938. A new genus and new species and subspecies of mammals from Little Namaqualand and the north-west Cape Province; and a new subspecies of Gerbillus paeba from the eastern Cape Province. Annals of the South African Museum, 3 (2): 281 - 291.
  • Smith, A. 1833 - 1834. An epitome of African Zoology; or, a concise description of the objects of the animal kingdom inhabiting Africa, its islands and seas. South African Quarterly Journal, 2: 16 - 32, 49 - 64, 81 - 96, 113 - 128, 145 - 160, 169 - 192, 209 - 224, 233 - 248.
  • Koehler, C. E., and P. R. K. Richardson. 1990. Proteles cristatus. Mammalian Species, 363: 1 - 6.