Dendrohyrax arboreus

(A. Smith, 1827)

Southern Tree Hyrax

Figure 1. FMNH 155377. Photograph by P. Lai.

Figure 2. FMNH 17501. Photograph by R. Banasiak & P. Lai.

Type Description:

Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 15:468

Type Locality:

South Africa, Western Cape Prov., forests of Cape of Good Hope.

Measurements:

Total length: 405-600 mm

Weight: 1500-3350 g

Distribution:

Dendrohyrax arboreus is abundant throughout galleries, riverine strips, montane forests and relics, and dry areas with Acacia growth from sea-level to 4,500 m. This species is distributed from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in the north down into the southern Congo and Zambia and along the montane areas around Lake Malawi with a couple small isolated areas in Mozambique and South Africa. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997)

Figure 3.

Key Reference:

1. Kingdon, J. 1984. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1:344-351.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 300-301.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2:1041, 1046-1047.
4. Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20(6):274-392.