Cephalophus rufilatus Gray 1846

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 714

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) .