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--> GENUS Damaliscus
SPECIES Damaliscus lunatus
| Author: | Burchell, 1824. | | Citation: | Travels in Interior of Southern Africa, 2: 334. | | Common Name: | Common Tsessebe | | Type Locality: | South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Kuruman Dist., "Makkwarin" (Matlhwareng) River. | | Distribution: | Southern Africa in E Angola, N Botswana, Mozambique (extinct), NE Namibia, South Africa (extinct in Northern Cape, North-West, and Mpumalanga Provs., and N KwaZulu-Natal; survives in E Limpopo Prov.; reintroduced within former range), Swaziland (extinct; reintroduced), E and C Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | | Status: | IUCN � Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | For date of publication see Ellerman et al. (1953:201), who included korrigum in this species. Cotterill (2003c) separated a Zambian population as a separate species and also regarded korrigum as a separate species. |
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