Order Artiodactyla
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
637
722
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Cephalophus rufilatus
Gray 1846
Cephalophus rufilatus
Gray 1846
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 18: 166
.
Type Locality:
"
Sierra Leone
, Village of Waterloo".
Vernacular Names:
Red-flanked Duiker
.
Distribution:
Savanna zone in
Benin
,
Burkina Faso
,
Cameroon
,
Central African Republic
, S
Chad
, Côte d’Ivoire, NE Dem. Rep.
Congo
,
Gambia
,
Guinea
,
Guinea
Bissau
, S
Mali
,
S Niger
,
Nigeria
,
Senegal
,
Sierra Leone
, SW
Sudan
,
Togo
, and NW
Uganda
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (cd).
Discussion:
Known from a specimen collected by Adanson in
Senegal
as "la grimme" (
Buffon, 1764:307
, 329), and described as "
Antilope grimmia
" by
Desmarest (1816
c
:191)
from Coast of
Guinea
, based on misidentifications of this species as
Sylvicapra grimmia
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
.