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Ogilby’s duiker

(Cephalophus ogilbyi)

Description

Ogilby’s Duiker has a disjunct distribution in four areas of the equatorial forest zone in West and Central Africa (East 1999;Wilson 2001,Kingdon 2013): Brooke's Duiker C.o.brookei is endemic to the Upper Guinea Forest of West Africa,from Sierra Leone to south-east Côte d’Ivoire,and south-west Ghana;the nominate subspecies occurs on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea) and in south-east Nigeria and south-west Cameroon;the White-legged Duiker C.o.crusalbum occurs in Gabon,mostly south of the Ogooué River,and extreme north-west Republic of Congo.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Bovidae
Genus:Cephalophus
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