Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824

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Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824

Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1824 , Travels in Interior of Southern Africa, Vol. 2: 278 (footnote) [1824].

Type Locality: Apparently "Kosi Fountain", but lectotype came from South Africa, North West Prov., Vryburg Dist., "Chue Spring, Maadji Mtn [Klein Heuningvlei]"; see Grubb (1999).

Vernacular Names: Blue Wildebeest.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. taurinus Burchell 1824

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. albojubatus Thomas 1892

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. cooksoni Blaine 1914

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. johnstoni P. L. Sclater 1896

Subspecies Connochaetes taurinus subsp. mearnsi Heller 1913

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, S Kenya, Malawi (extinct), Mozambique, Namibia, NE South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: For year of publication see Ellerman et al. (1953:205). Synonymy follows Ansell (1972:51). Status of babaulti discussed by Scoazec (1996). Cotterill (2003 a) listed johnstoni and cooksoni as species.