Buffalo subspecies from Western and Central Africa
African forest buffalo
At the San Diego Zoo
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Family:
Bovidae
Subfamily:
Bovinae
Genus:
Syncerus
Species:
S. caffer
Subspecies:
S. c. nanus
Trinomial name
Syncerus caffer nanus
(Boddaert, 1785)
The range in dark green
Synonyms
Syncerus nanus
The African forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), also known as the dwarf buffalo or the Congo buffalo, is the smallest subspecies of the African buffalo.[1] It is related to the Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer), the Sudan buffalo (Syncerus caffer brachyceros), and the Nile buffalo (Syncerus caffer aequinoctialis). However, it is the only subspecies that occurs mainly in the rainforests of Central Africa and Western Africa, with an annual rainfall around 1,500 mm (59 in).[2] It has been proposed to represent a distinct species, Syncerus nanus.[3]
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