Giraffe – Giraffa camelopardalis

Giraffa camelopardalisLinnaeus, 1758

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

Subspecific synonymy modified from Ansell (1972:13). Reviewed by Dagg (1971, Mammalian Species, 5). Cotterill (2003a) listed thornicrofti as a species. The names reticulata Weinland, 1863 and australis Rhoads, 1896 have been suppressed, while reticulata De Winton, 1899 has been conserved (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1971a, 1979b), even though australis is probably a junior synonym of giraffa, not a senior synonym of reticulata De Winton.

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.