White-bellied duiker

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White-bellied duiker
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Cephalophus
Species:
C. leucogaster
Binomial name
Cephalophus leucogaster
Gray, 1873
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Distribution of white-bellied duiker

The white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster) is a duiker found in central Africa. Little is known on the ecology of the species, and only some information on habitat and diet is available.

Duikers are fairly small species of antelope that originate from, and still reside in, sub-Saharan Africa.

The white-bellied duiker ranges in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon, [2] while it is likely to have been extirpated in Uganda. [3]

Sections through the skulls of the dinosaur Stegoceras validum (left) and Cephalophus leucogaster (right). Stegoceras and Cephalophus sections.png
Sections through the skulls of the dinosaur Stegoceras validum (left) and Cephalophus leucogaster (right).

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blue duiker</span> Species of mammal

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<i>Cephalophus</i> Genus of mammals

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References

  1. IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2016). "Cephalophus leucogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T4141A50182823. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T4141A50182823.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. (Wilson & Reeder, 1993)
  3. (East, 1996)