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Blue Duiker
Philantomba monticola (Thunberg, 1789)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Bovidae - cattle, antelopes, sheep and goats »  genus Philantomba - Small Duikers

Scientific synonyms

Capra monticola Thunberg, 1789 o
Cephalophus monticola (Thunberg, 1789)

Images

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Philantomba monticola bicolor - Zimbabwe Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola bicolor - Zimbabwe Blue Duiker

Author: Johannes Pfleiderer

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Johannes Pfleiderer

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Rene Mantei

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Author: Elias Neideck

Taxon in country check-lists*

* List of countries might not be complete

Intertaxon relationships

predator: Caracal caracal (von Schreber, 1776) - Caracal

parasite: Haemonchus lawrencei Sandground, 1933

Included taxa

Number of records: 12

subspecies Philantomba monticola aequatorialis (Matschie, 1892) - Uganda Blue Duiker
subspecies Philantomba monticola anchietae (Bocage, 1879) - Angola Blue Duiker
subspecies Philantomba monticola bicolor (Gray, 1863) - Zimbabwe Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola bicolor

subspecies Philantomba monticola congica (Lönnberg, 1908) - Cameroon Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola congica

subspecies Philantomba monticola defriesi (W. Rothschild, 1904) - Northeastern Rhodesia Blue Duiker
subspecies Philantomba monticola hecki (Matschie, 1897) - Mozambique Blue Duiker
subspecies Philantomba monticola lugens (Thomas, 1898) - Usangu Blue Duiker
subspecies Philantomba monticola melanorhea (Gray, 1846) - Bioko blue duiker
subspecies Philantomba monticola monticola (Thunberg, 1789) - Cape Blue Duiker

Philantomba monticola monticola

subspecies Philantomba monticola musculoides (Heller, 1913)
subspecies Philantomba monticola simpsoni (Thomas, 1910) - Middle Congo Blue Duiker
subspecies Philantomba monticola sundevalli (Fitzinger, 1869) - Zanzibar Blue Duiker

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [4143]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Philantomba monticola (Thunberg, 1789)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006230]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Philantomba monticola (Thunberg, 1789)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Philantomba monticola Thunberg, 1789]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [7214:blauducker-philantomba-monticola&Itemid=266]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon [as Philantomba monticola]
Data retrieved on: 7 January 2021
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Cephalophus monticola (Thunberg, 1789)]

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