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White-bellied duiker
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Cephalophus
Species:
C. leucogaster
Binomial name
Cephalophus leucogaster
Gray, 1873
Distribution of white-bellied duiker

The white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster) is a duiker found in central Africa. Little is known on the ecology of the species, and only some information on habitat and diet is available.

Duikers are a fairly small species of antelope that originate from, and still reside in, sub-Saharan Africa.

The white-bellied duiker ranges in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon, [2] while it is likely to have been extirpated in Uganda. [3]

Sections through the skulls of the dinosaur Stegoceras validum (left) and Cephalophus leucogaster (right).

References

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2016). "Cephalophus leucogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T4141A50182823. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T4141A50182823.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ (Wilson & Reeder, 1993)
  3. ^ (East, 1996)