Giraffa camelopardalis peralta Thomas, 1898

Petzold, Alice, Magnant, Anne-Sophie, Edderai, David, Chardonnet, Bertrand, Rigoulet, Jacques, Saint-Jalme, Michel & Hassanin, Alexandre, 2020, First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens, European Journal of Taxonomy 703, pp. 1-33 : 22-23

Giraffa camelopardalis peralta Thomas, 1898

Diagnosis

Elongated skull, large spatulate nasal opening, vertically upright direction of the ossicones, fawncoloured patch below the ears, white sparsely spotted occipital region; two ES in the Cytb gene: 219 C=>T, 1080 C=>T, and one ES in the CR: 23 A=> G.

Type material

Holotype

NIGERIA • 1 specimen (skull and bones of right fore and left hind limb); Lokoja; NHMUK-1898.2.18.1.

Distribution

Niger.

Remarks

The type locality has originally been assigned to the junction between the Niger and Benue rivers in Nigeria, but it was corrected in this study to Lokoja ( Nigeria) north of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers in accordance with Happold (1969).