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Heterohyrax brucei  (Gray, 1868)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 584910

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderHyracoidea Huxley, 1869 – cories, dassies, Hyraxes  
                                  FamilyProcaviidae Thomas, 1892  
                                     GenusHeterohyrax Gray, 1868 – Bush Hyraxes  
                                        SpeciesHeterohyrax brucei (Gray, 1868) – Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei albipes Hollister, 1922  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei antineae (Heim de Balsac and Bégouen, 1932)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei bakeri (Gray, 1874)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei bocagei (Gray, 1869)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei brucei (Gray, 1868)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei chapini (Hatt, 1933)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei dieseneri (Brauer, 1917)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei frommi (Brauer, 1913)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei granti (Wroughton, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei hindei (Wroughton, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei hoogstraali Setzer, 1956  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei kempi (Thomas, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei lademanni (Brauer, 1917)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei manningi (Wroughton, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei mossambicus (Peters, 1870)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei muenzneri (Brauer, 1913)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei princeps (Thomas, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei prittwitzi Brauer, 1917  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei pumilus (Thomas, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei ruddi (Wroughton, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei rudolfi (Thomas, 1910)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei somalicus (Thomas, 1892)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei ssongeae Brauer, 1917  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei thomasi (Neumann, 1901)  
                                           Subspecies Heterohyrax brucei victorianjansae Brauer, 1917  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Duane A. Schlitter  
  Notes: Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843, dschlitter@wfscgate.tamu.edu   
  Reference for: Heterohyrax brucei    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Heterohyrax brucei   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Heterohyrax brucei, Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Heterohyrax brucei, Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax [English]   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: See Barry and Shoshani (2000, Mammalian Species, 645)  
    IUCN - Vulnerable as H. antineae and H. chapini, Lower Risk (lc) as H. brucei  
 

 

    

 
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