Taipan

Jan 23 2016, 01:23 PM

Fig 1. Photographs of a (a) plains, (b) mountain, and (c) Grevy’s zebra, and (d) African wild ass in the Tierpark Zoo, Berlin.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145679

Sicilianu

Jan 24 2016, 12:21 AM

Hmm the zebra species names are off.

A) Equus quagga, B) Equus grevyi C) Equus zebra, D) Equus africanus.

An unfortunate mistake in a peer-reviewed article.

Ntwadumela

Jan 24 2016, 08:02 AM

A few numenclature mistakes in this picture. First, Equus burchelli was the binominal denomination of plain zebras for many years and the quagga was considered a different species from plain zebras, which is no longer considered right so the present denomination for plain zebras is Equus quagga because is the oldest name given. So a) is a plains zebra (Equus quagga), b) is a Grevy's zebra (Equus grevii) and c) is a mountain zebra (Equus zebra), the common names of b) and c) are in wrong position on the descrition.

Taipan

Jan 27 2016, 12:25 PM

Ntwadumela

Jan 24 2016, 08:02 AM

A few numenclature mistakes in this picture. First, Equus burchelli was the binominal denomination of plain zebras for many years and the quagga was considered a different species from plain zebras, which is no longer considered right so the present denomination for plain zebras is Equus quagga because is the oldest name given. So a) is a plains zebra (Equus quagga), b) is a Grevy's zebra (Equus grevii) and c) is a mountain zebra (Equus zebra), the common names of b) and c) are in wrong position on the descrition.

Could you post those studies that established the above numenclature, and whether they are accepted by all researchers, so we can tidy any discrepancies we have on the board - thanks.