Aders's duiker
| Aders's duiker | |
|---|---|
| Scientific 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 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leucocephalophus adersi (Thomas, 1918) | |
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. A 2022 study proposed to move C. adersi into its own new genus, Leucocephalophus. It is named after W. Mansfield Aders, a zoologist with the Zanzibar Government Service.