Heterohyrax brucei

(Gray, 1868)

Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax

Figure 1. Photograph by B. Stanley.

Figure 2. FMNH 83998. Photograph by R. Banasiak & P. Lai.

Type Description:

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 1:44

Type Locality:

Ethiopia (= Abyssinia).

Measurements:

Total length: 305-465 mm

Weight: 1020-2210 g

Distribution:

Heterohyrax brucei is found in wooded localities on riverbanks, escarpments, and rocky outcrops covering altitude ranges from sea-level to 3,800 m. This species is distributed throughout east and south-central Africa, from the east coastline of Egypt down into the Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia throughout East Africa and across from Mozambique into Angola. (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, 1:340-343.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 299.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2:1041, 1044-1046.
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.