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Equus africanus somaliensis (Somali wild ass)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

Taxonomy
Asinus taeniopus somaliensis was named by Noack (1884). It is extant.

It was recombined as Equus somaliensis by Matschie (1894); it was synonymized subjectively with Equus asinus by Lydekker (1904); it was recombined as Equus africanus somaliensis by Beja-Pereira et al. (2004) and Groves and Smeenk (2007).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1884Asinus taeniopus somaliensis Noack
1884Equus africanus somalicus Sclater
1894Equus somaliensis Matschie
1957Equus asinus aethiopicus Denman
2004Equus africanus somaliensis Beja-Pereira et al. p. 1781
2007Equus africanus somaliensis Groves and Smeenk p. 121

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
superfamilyEquoidea
familyEquidae
subfamilyEquinae
tribeEquini
genusEquus
speciesafricanus(Heuglin and Fitzinger 1866)
subspeciessomaliensis(Noack 1884)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Equus africanus somaliensis Noack 1884 [Somali wild ass]
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Invalid names: Equus africanus somalicus Sclater 1884 [synonym]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available