Hartmann's mountain zebra

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Etymology

Calque of translingual Equus zebra hartmannae; named after German biologist Max Hartmann (1876–1962), who donated the zebra skin that led to the new species's discovery.[1]

Noun

Hartmann's mountain zebra (plural Hartmann's mountain zebras)

  1. A mountain zebra of subspecies Equus zebra hartmannae, found in southwestern Angola and western Namibia, and having a dewlap and an unstriped belly.
    • 1907, Richard Lydekker, “The Zebra”, in Guide to the specimens of the horse family (Equidæ) exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)‎, London: Order of the Trustees, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
      The Zebra was formerly found in all the mountain-ranges of Cape Colony, but is now restricted to the Cradock district, where it is protected by law. It was from this locality that the specimen exhibited in the Lower Mammal Gallery was obtained. The species is represented in Angola by Penrice's Zebra (E. zebra penricei), and in Damaraland by Hartmann's zebra (E. z. hartmannae), which are, however, perhaps not separable from one another.

References
  1. Georg Friedrich Paul Matschie (1898) “Über einige anscheinend noch nicht beschriebene Säugethiere aus Afrika”, in Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft für naturforschende Freunde zu Berlin‎ (in German), Berlin: GNF, →ISSN, page 174
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