Bibliographic records of Angola mammals
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical
Description
Compilation of records of Angolan mammals, gathered by Crawford-Cabral and colleagues in 4 publications (Crawford-Cabral 1998, Crawford-Cabral and Simões 1987, 1988 and Crawford-Cabral and Veríssimo 2005) of the Instituto de Investigação Científica de Portugal. It holds around 10.000 records of 140 species and subspecies of carnivores, ungulates and rodents of Angola. It has an historical value since the bulk of the dataset is from the 20th century (mainly from 1930-1980). The taxonomic nomenclature is the one used by Crawford-Cabral and follows the general lines of 2nd edition of Wilson & Reeder’s Mammal Species of the World (1993).
Taxonomic range
The taxonomic coverage of the dataset includes 140 taxa (species and subspecies) of the orders Carnivora, Rodentia, Artiodactyla, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, Proboscidea, Sirenia, Tubulidentata. Ungulates are the group best represented, with largest number of records (7053) followed by rodents (2037) and carnivores (789).
Kingdoms covered include: Animalia.
Geographic range
The geographic range of the records covers Angola.
Number of specimens in the collection
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