Aders's duiker

Aders's duiker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Cephalophus
Species:
C. adersi
Binomial name
Cephalophus adersi
Thomas, 1918
Distribution of Aders's duiker

Aders's duiker (Cephalophus adersi), also known as nunga in Swahili, kunga marara in Kipokomo and harake in Giriama, is a small, forest-dwelling duiker found only in Zanzibar and Kenya. It may be a subspecies of the red, Harvey's, or Peters's duiker or a hybrid of a combination of these. It is named after W. Mansfield Aders, a zoologist with the Zanzibar Government Service.

  1. ^ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucn.org/ssc-groups/mammals/antelope-specialist-group/species-account Archived 17 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved Aug 2020