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Cephalophus silvicultor (yellow-backed duiker; ligit-backed duiker)

Synonyms: Antilope silvicultrix (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) is a forest dwelling antelope in the order Artiodactyla from the family Bovidae. Yellow-backed duikers are the most widely distributed of all the duikers. They are found mainly in Central and Western Africa, ranging from Senegal to Western Uganda with a possible few in Gambia. Their range also extends southward into Ruanda, Burunidi, Zaire, and most of Zambia.
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Infraspecies

Cephalophus silvicultor curticeps
Cephalophus silvicultor longiceps
Cephalophus silvicultor ruficrista
Cephalophus silvicultor silvicultor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.66
EDGE Score: 1.73
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  136.687 lbs (62.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  5.291 lbs (2.40 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  60 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  5 months 15 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  23 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  5.281 feet (161 cm)
Weaning [1]  38 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Guinean Forests of West Africa Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cercocebus galeritus (Tana River mangabey)1
Loxodonta africana (African Bush Elephant)1
Onychognathus tenuirostris (Slender-billed Starling)1
Ruwenzorornis johnstoni (Ruwenzori Turaco)1
Tauraco bannermani (Bannerman's Turaco)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ixodes rasus[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Cephalophus silvicultor, Susan Lumpkin and Karl R. Kranz, Mammalian Species No. 225, pp. 1-7 (1984)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0