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Equus africanus (African wild ass)
Taxonomy
Asinus africanus was named by Heuglin and Fitzinger (1866) [lectotype designated by Groves and Smeenk 2007]. It is extant. Its type specimen is MNS 32026.
It was recombined as Equus asinus africanus by Lydekker (1904); it was recombined as Equus africanus by Matschie (1894), Beja-Pereira et al. (2004), Groves and Smeenk (2007).
It was recombined as Equus asinus africanus by Lydekker (1904); it was recombined as Equus africanus by Matschie (1894), Beja-Pereira et al. (2004), Groves and Smeenk (2007).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. algericus, E. altidens, E. altidens, E. aluticus, E. antiquus, E. apolloniensis, E. athanasiui, E. bressanus, E. caballus, E. caballus, E. caballus, E. ferus, E. fraccisci, E. germanicus, E. gmelini, E. helmei, E. hipparionoides, E. hydruntinus, E. ident, E. koobiforensis, E. litoralis, E. livenzovensis, E. marxi, E. mauritanicus, E. mosbachensis, E. namadicus, E. namadicus, E. neogens, E. neogeus, E. oldowayensis, E. onager, E. petraloniensis, E. plicatus, E. przewalski, E. pygmaeus, E. robustus, E. simionescui, E. stehlini, E. steinheimensis, E. stenonis, E. sussenbornensis, E. taubachensis, E. valeriani, E. verae, E. helmei, E. koobiforensis, E. mauritanicus, E. oldowayensis, E. verae, E. neogaeus
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1866 | Asinus africanus Heuglin and Fitzinger |
| 1894 | Equus africanus Matschie |
| 1904 | Equus asinus africanus Lydekker |
| 2004 | Equus africanus Beja-Pereira et al. p. 1781 |
| 2007 | Equus africanus Groves and Smeenk p. 121 |
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Equus africanus Heuglin and Fitzinger 1866 [African wild ass]
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Equus africanus africanus Heuglin and Fitzinger 1866 [Nubian wild ass]
Equus africanus somaliensis Noack 1884 [Somali wild ass]
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Invalid names: Equus asinus aethiopicus Denman 1957 [synonym]
Invalid names: Equus africanus somalicus Sclater 1884 [synonym]
Asinus asinus dianae Dollman 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available