Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi Lydekker, 1903

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 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.703
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4D9170AC-775A-4DBB-9F04-87FF91AF5336
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332053
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scientific name	Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi Lydekker, 1903
status

Treatment

Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi Lydekker, 1903 View in CoL

Diagnosis

Lower parts of the legs pure white and unspotted, spots show a tendency to split up into stars, occipital pair of ossicones, one ES in the CR: 129 T=> C.

Type material

Holotype

KENYA • 1 specimen (mounted skin); Guasin-gisha Plateau east of Mount Elgon; NHMUK-1903.4.15.1.

Distribution

Western Ethiopia, Kenya (holotype), Uganda, South Sudan.