Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Hyracoidea |
| Family: | Procaviidae |
| Genus: | Heterohyrax Gray, 1868 |
| Species: | H. brucei |
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| Heterohyrax brucei (Gray, 1868) |
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| Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax range | |
The Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax or Bush Hyrax (Heterohyrax brucei) is a species of mammal in the Procaviidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Northern South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Unlike the Rock Hyrax, it is not found outside of Africa.[3] Its natural habitats are dry savanna and rocky areas.[2]
It is currently the only species in the genus Heterohyrax. However, there are 25 distinct subspecies.[1]
It feeds on small grasses, herbage, leaves, fruit, insects, lizards, and birds' eggs.[4]
[edit] Subspecies
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- H. b. albipes
- H. b. antineae
- H. b. bakeri
- H. b. bocagei
- H. b. brucei (type species)
- H. b. chapini
- H. b. dieseneri
- H. b. frommi
- H. b. granti
- H. b. hindei
- H. b. hoogstraali
- H. b. kempi
- H. b. lademanni
- H. b. manningi
- H. b. mossambicus
- H. b. muenzneri
- H. b. princeps
- H. b. prittwitzi
- H. b. pumilus
- H. b. ruddi
- H. b. rudolfi
- H. b. somalicus
- H. b. ssongeae
- H. b. thomasi
- H. b. victorianjansae
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- ^ a b c Shoshani, Jeheskel (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 88. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=11400012.
- ^ a b Barry, R., Bloomer, P., Hoeck, H. & Shoshani, H. (2008). Heterohyrax brucei. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.
- ^ http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Heterohyrax_brucei.html
- ^ Hyrax, Out of Africa
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