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Cephalophus adersi (Aders's duiker)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Aders' duiker (Cephalophus adersi), also known as nunga in Swahili, kunga marara in Kipokomo, and harake in Giriama), is a small, forest-dwelling duiker found only in Zanzibar and a small coastal enclave in Kenya. It is also critically endangered. It may be a subspecies of the red, Harvey's, or Peters's duiker or a hybrid of a combination of these. It has a population of fewer than 1,400.
View Wikipedia Record: Cephalophus adersi

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Cephalophus adersi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
63
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.88
EDGE Score: 4.84
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  20.393 lbs (9.25 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  4.138 lbs (1.877 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Endothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [3]  30 %
Diet - Plants [3]  60 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Gestation [2]  5 months 16 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  15 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  31 inches (79 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve 102984 Kenya  
Dodori National Reserve 216808 Kenya  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania Yes

Prey / Diet

Ficus lutea (West African rubbertree)[4]
Grewia glandulosa[4]
Guettarda speciosa (beach gardenia)[4]
Mimusops fruticosa[4]
Suregada zanzibariensis[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Fiske, Aviva, The Aders’s Duikers (Cephalophus adersi) of Mnemba Island, Zanzibar: A Study of the Behavior and Diet of a Critically Endangered Species (2011). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. Paper 1023.
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