Giraffa camelopardalis senegalensis Petzold, Magnant & Hassanin, 2020

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 : 24

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.4332061
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/838C1DB1-59BA-49DD-B5AA-F5432F36B112
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:838C1DB1-59BA-49DD-B5AA-F5432F36B112
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Giraffa camelopardalis senegalensis Petzold, Magnant & Hassanin
status	subsp. nov.

Treatment

Giraffa camelopardalis senegalensis Petzold, Magnant & Hassanin , subsp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Beige ground colour covered with dark brown spots following a reticulated pattern separated by narrow lines, skull features detailed in Blainville (1864), one ES in the Cytb gene: 732 A=> G; four ES in the CR: 92 dC, 95 A=>G, 359 C =>T, 463 A=>G.

Type material examined

Holotype (here designated)

SENEGAL • 1 specimen (skeleton); Bakel ; MNHN-A10617 . View Materials

Past distribution

Probably extinct, former range extended over Senegal (holotype) and potentially Gambia, Mauritania and Mali.