Giraffa giraffa ( Boddaert, 1784 )

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 : 25

Giraffa giraffa ( Boddaert, 1784)

Diagnosis

Anterior horn rudimentary, shanks coloured and fully spotted, three ES in the C1orf74 intron: 24 A=>T, 33 A=>G, 825 C=> G; three ES in the DHX36 intron: 127 G =>A, 449 dAT, 498 A=>G; one ES in the IGF2B1 intron: 45 G =>A; one ES in the UBN2 intron: 386 dTCT; six ES in the USP33 intron: 267 G =>A, 279 T=>C, 309 dAA, 538 G =>T, 805 A=>G, 928 G =>A.

Type material examined

Neotype (here designated)

NAMIBIA • 1 specimen (mounted skeleton), “Giraffe of Levaillant”; North of the Orange river; MNHN-A7977 .

Distribution

Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia (neotype), South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Remarks

No concrete holotype specimen assigned, as specimens of the Prince of Orange Museum in The Hague and the giraffe of Vosmaer (1787) from the Naturalis museum in Leiden ( Netherlands) are ʻwhereabouts unknownʼ.