Syncerus caffer

– Lower Risk Conservation Dependent

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

ARTIODACTYLA

Family:

BOVIDAE

Scientific Name:

Syncerus caffer

Species Authority:

(Sparrman, 1779)

Common Name/s:

English

—

AFRICAN BUFFALO

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:	LR/cd ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed:	1996
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Antelope Specialist Group

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Mali; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Regionally extinct:

Gambia

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Citation:	Antelope Specialist Group 1996. Syncerus caffer. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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