Giraffa giraffa giraffa

Taxonavigation
Familia: Giraffidae
Genus: Giraffa
Species: Giraffa giraffa
Subspecies:
Name
Giraffa giraffa (Schreber, 1784)
- Neotype: MNHN A7977
- Type locality: "Cape of Good Hope" (Boddaert, 1785), Namibia, specimen (mounted skeleton), “Giraffe of Levaillant”; North of the Orange river, Locality data of Neotype (Petzold et al. 2020)
Synonymy
- Giraffa giraffa (Schreber, 1784)
- Camelopardalis australis Swainson, 1835: 284.
- Camelopardalis capensis Lesson, 1842: 168.
- Camelopardalis maculata Weinland, 1863: 205, fig. p. 206.
- Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis Lydekker, 1903: 121, fig. p. 121.
References
- Petzold A, Magnant A-S, Edderai D, Chardonnet B, Rigoulet J, Saint-Jalme M, & Hassanin A. 2020. First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens. European Journal of Taxonomy 703: 1–33. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.703