Mountain zebra

Mountain zebra
Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
Hartmann's mountain zebra (E. zebra hartmannae) in Etosha National Park, Namibia
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
Subgenus: Hippotigris
Species:
E. zebra
Binomial name
Equus zebra
Subspecies

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Range map of Equus zebra zebra in red and Equus zebra hartmannae in blue

The mountain zebra (Equus zebra) is a zebra species in the family Equidae, native to southwestern Africa. There are two subspecies, the Cape mountain zebra (E. z. zebra) found in South Africa and Hartmann's mountain zebra (E. z. hartmannae) found in south-western Angola and Namibia.