Madoqua kirkii Günther 1880

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 : 683

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Madoqua kirkii Günther 1880 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880: 17.

Type Locality: Somalia,"near Brava, in the South Somali country".

Vernacular Names: Kirk's Dikdik.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Madoqua kirkii subsp. kirkii Günther 1880

Subspecies Madoqua kirkii subsp. cavendishi Thomas 1898

Subspecies Madoqua kirkii subsp. damarensis Günther 1880

Subspecies Madoqua kirkii subsp. hindei Thomas 1902

Distribution: Kenya, N and C Tanzania, and S Somalia in East Africa; SW Angola and Namibia in Southern Africa.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Synonymy modified from Ansell (1972:64) who included cavendishi , damarensis , and thomasi ; and from review by Kingswood and Kumamoto (1997, Mammalian Species, 569). Specimens whose karyology was studied by Ryder et al. (1989) and Kumamoto et al. (1994) may really represent three or more species, M. kirkii sensu stricto or M. hindei , M. cavendishi and M. damarensis . Regarded as four evolutionary species ( M. kirkii , M. cavendishi , M. thomasi , and M. damarensis ) by Cotterill (2003 b), but thomasi grades into cavendishi and is not a separate taxon.