Order Perissodactyla
Author
James H. Honacki
Author
Kenneth E. Kinman
Author
James W. Koeppl
text
1982
Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editor
James H. Honacki
Editor
Kenneth E. Kinman
Editor
James W. Koeppl
Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition)
308
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book chapter
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Equus burchelli
(Gray, 1824)
.
Zool. J., 1:247
.
TYPE
LOCALITY:
South Africa
,
Bechuanaland
, Little Klibbolikhoni Fontein
.
DISTRIBUTION: Blue Nile to Orange River, including S.W.
Somalia
and S.W.
Ethiopia
, to S. Africa to S.E.
Zaire
and S. and E.
Angola
.
COMMENT: Does not include the extinct species,
quagga
;
see
Bennett, 1980
, Syst. Zool., 29:272-287;
Groves and Willoughby, 1981
,
Mammalia
, 45:321-354. Many previous workers regarded
quagga
and
burchelli
as conspecific; see
Rau, 1978
, Ann. S. Afr.
Mus
., 77. At least 21 synonyms of
burchelli
exist, most based on variations in stripe pattern. Cabrera, 1936, J. Mamm., 17:89-112, synonymized most forms and demonstrated a cline in stripe pattern. Reviewed by
Grubb, 1981
, Mamm. Species, 157:1- 9.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301418001001002001.