Equus quagga Boddaert 1785 (plains zebra)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Belongs to Equus according to E. D. Lorenzen et al. 2008

See also Klein 1979

Sister taxa: Equus (Amerhippus), Equus (Asinus) cumminsi, Equus (Hemionus), Equus (Hesperohippus), Equus (Parastilidequus), Equus (Sussemionus), Equus africanus, Equus alaskae, Equus asinus, Equus australis, Equus caballus, Equus calobatus, Equus capensis, Equus cedralensis, Equus coliemensis, Equus complicatus, Equus conversidens, Equus eisenmannae, Equus excelsus, Equus francisci, Equus fraternus, Equus fromanius, Equus giganteus, Equus holmesi, Equus intermedius, Equus jubatus, Equus laurentius, Equus leidyi, Equus mexicanus, Equus nalaikhaensis, Equus nearcticus, Equus nevadanus, Equus niobrarensis, Equus nobisi, Equus parastylidens, Equus pectinatus, Equus przewalskii, Equus pseudaltidens, Equus sanmeniensis, Equus santaeelenae, Equus semiplicatus, Equus sivalensis, Equus tabeti, Equus taeniopus, Equus yunnanensis, Equus zebra, Hippotherium princeps, Hippotigris stenonis, Hippotigris robustus, Hippotigris grevyi, Asinus africanus, Equus (Asinus) kiang, Onager onager, Equus (Dolichohippus) enormis, Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi

Subtaxa: Equus quagga boehmi Equus quagga borensis Equus quagga burchelli Equus quagga chapmani Equus quagga crawshayi Equus quagga quagga

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Djibouti (1), Eritrea (1), Kenya (19), Libya (4), Namibia (1), South Africa (34), Swaziland (1), Tanzania (14), Zambia (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)

Total: 84 collections including 94 occurrences

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