Equus burchellii (Gray, 1824)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 369-372 : 369

Equus burchellii (Gray, 1824) . Zool. J., 1:247.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, N Cape Province, Kuruman, Little Klibbolikhonni Fontein .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Sudan, SW Ethiopia and S Somalia south and southwest to SE Zaire, S and E Angola, N Namibia, N and E Botswana; Natal and Transvaal ( South Africa); formerly more widespread in southern Africa, south to Orange River.

SYNONYMS: annectens , antiquorum , boehmi, borensis , campestris , chapmanni, crawshaii, cuninghamei, festivus , foai , goldfinchi, granfi, isabella, jallae, kaufntanni, kaokensis, mariae, markhami , muansae , paucistriatus, pococki, selousii, tigrinus , transvaalensis, wahlbergi, zambeziensis, zebroides .

COMMENTS: A species separate from E. quagga ; see Gentry (1975), Eisenmann and Turlot (1978), and Bennett (1980). Many previous workers regarded quagga and burchellii as conspecific; see Rau (1978). Recently regarded as conspecific by Groves (1985b). Reviewed by Grubb (1981, Mammalian Species, 157).