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Yellow-backed Duiker
Cephalophus silvicultor (Afzelius, 1815)

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

Scientific synonyms

Antilope silvicultrix Afzelius, 1815 o
Cephalophus sylvicultor (Afzelius, 1815)

Other names

= Ligit-backed Duiker

Type taxon of:Cephalophus C. H. Smith, 1827 (Antilope silvicultrix Afzelius, 1815)

Images

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

female

Author: Michal Sloviak

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

female

Author: Michal Sloviak

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cephalophus silvicultor - Yellow-backed Duiker

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Intertaxon relationships

predator: Panthera pardus pardus (Linnaeus, 1758) - African Leopard

Included taxa

Number of records: 4

subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor curticeps Grubb & Groves, 2002 - Eastern Yellow-backed Duiker
subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor longiceps Gray, 1865
subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor ruficrista Bocage, 1869 - Angola Yellow-backed Duiker
subspecies Cephalophus silvicultor silvicultor (Afzelius, 1815) - Western Yellow-backed Duiker

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [4150]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Cephalophus silvicultor (Afzelius, 1815)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006225]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Cephalophus silvicultor (Afzelius, 1815)]
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 Cephalophus silvicultor Afzelius, 1815]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [659:gelbrueckenducker]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Cephalophus sylvicultor (Afzelius, 1815)]

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Explanations

o original combination

? disputed occurrence of species in area described by check-list

species extinct or not found recently in area described by check-list