Name - Giraffa Brisson 1762

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1047250 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Giraffa

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Case 2928. Regnum Animale..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): proposed rejection, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).
• Opinion 1894. Regnum Animale..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for nomenclatural purposes, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).
• First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens.

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Regnum animale, 1762 1762: 37. [Index Animalium Entry]

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