Litocranius walleri (Brooke 1878)

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 : 682

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scientific name	Litocranius walleri (Brooke 1878)
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[Gazella] walleri Brooke 1879 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 929.

Type Locality: "Mainland of Africa, north of the island of Zanzibar, about lat. 30°S and long. 38°E " and therefore apparently in Kenya, but shown to be correctly " Somalia, coast near Juba River" by Sclater and Thomas (1898) and Moreau et al. (1946) and more specifically, the vicinity of Chisimayo (Grubb, 2002). GoogleMaps

Vernacular Names: Gerenuk.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Litocranius walleri subsp. walleri Brooke 1878

Subspecies Litocranius walleri subsp. sclateri Neumann 1988

Distribution: E Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, NE Tanzania.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).