Giraffa giraffa wardi Lydekker, 1904

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 : 26

Giraffa giraffa wardi Lydekker, 1904

Giraffa infumata Noack, 1903: 356 .

Diagnosis

Irregular spots, spots on the side of the face restricted to the region below and behind the eyes, two ES in the Cytb gene: 634 C=>T, 705 A=>G.

Type material

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA • 1 specimen (mounted head and neck); NHMUK-1903.11.18.1 .

Distribution

Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa (holotype), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Remarks

The holotype is given by Lydekker (1914) under the collection number NHMUK - 1903.11.18.1, but this catalogue number leads to a fish specimen ( Pomatomus telescopus Risso, 1810 ) on the collection website (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657- 4ccb55ab2feb/record/3124756). However, two other specimens of wardi can be found in the museum collection (NHMUK-1903.11.17.1 and NHMUK-1903.11.17.3), one of which might be considered the neotype if the holotype cannot be found.