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Neotragus moschatus

Order: Artiodactyla > Family: Bovidae > Genus: Neotragus > Species: Neotragus moschatus

Type Description

In Sundevall, Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl., Stockholm, 3(7):221.

Type Locality

'in Chapani (Anglis French island) occisa insula prope Zanzibar in Lat. Austr. 6°9', Long. Orient. 39°14' a Greenwich sita, fructibus dense tecta et fonte irrigata' (Tanzania, Chapani Isl, 3 km from Zanzibar).

Measurements

Head and body: 580-620 mm
Tail length: 110-130 mm
Weight: 4-9 kg

Key References

1. Kingdon, J. 1989. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. (Large Mammals). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 3C:192-201.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 385-386.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2:1135, 1189-1191.
4. Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20(6):274-392.