Giraffa

Familia: Giraffidae
Genus:
Species (3 + †7): G. camelopardalis – G. giraffa – G. tippelskirchi – †G. gracilis – †G. jumae – †G. priscilla – †G. punjabiensis – †G. pygmaea – †G. sivalensis – †G. stillei

Giraffa Brisson, 1762: 37 [conserved name]

• Type species: Cervus camelopardalis Linnaeus, 1758, by designation under the Plenary Powers (1998: 65).
• Gender: feminine.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1894 (1998: 65).

• Brisson, M.J. 1762. Regnum animale in classes IX. Distributum, Sive, Synopsis Methodica, Sistens generalem Animalium distributionem in Classes IX, & duarum primarum Classium, Quadrupedum scilicet & Cetaceorum, particularem divisionem in Ordines, Sectiones, Genera & Species. Cum brevi cujusque Speciei Descriptione, Cicationibus Auctorum de iis tractantium, Nominibus eis ab ipsis & Nationibus impositis, Nominibusque vulgaribus. Theodorum Haak: Lugduni Batavorum. 7 + 296 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1998. Opinion 1894. Regnum Animale ..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for nomenclatural purposes, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55(1): 64–71. BHL Reference page. 

• Brown, D.M. et al. 2007. Extensive population genetic structure in the giraffe. BMC Biology 5: 57. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-57

• Giraffa in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Giraffa – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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