Common name (as per Skinner & Chimimba, 2005) |
TaxonName |
African clawless otter |
Aonyx capensis |
African striped weasel |
Poecilogale albinucha |
African Wild Cat |
Felis silvestris |
Black-backed jackal |
Canis mesomelas |
Brants’ climbing mouse |
Dendromus mesomelas |
Cape dune molerat |
Bathyergus suillus |
Cape fox |
Vulpes chama |
Cape gerbil |
Tatera afra |
Cape golden mole |
Chrysochloris asiatica |
Cape grey mongoose |
Galerella pulverulenta pulverulenta |
Cape grysbok |
Raphicerus melanotis |
Cape hare |
Lepus capensis |
Cape molerat |
Georychus capensis |
Cape water rat |
Dasymys capensis |
Caracal |
Caracal caracal |
Chacma baboon |
Papio ursinus ursinus |
Common duiker |
Sylvicapra grimmia grimmia |
Forest shrew |
Myosorex varius |
Greater red musk shrew |
Crocidura flavescens |
Grey climbing mouse |
Dendromus melanotis |
Grey rhebok |
Pelea capreolus |
Honey badger |
Mellivora capensis |
Krebs’ fat mouse |
Steatomys krebsii |
Kudu |
Tragelaphus strepsiceros strepsiceros |
Large grey mongoose |
Herpestes ichneumon |
Leopard |
Panthera pardus |
Lesser dwarf shrew |
Suncus varilla |
Marsh mongoose |
Atilax paludinosus |
Porcupine |
Hystrix africaeaustralis |
Pygmy mouse |
Mus minutoides |
Reddish-grey musk shrew |
Crocidura cyanea |
Rock dassie |
Procavia capensis |
Scrub hare |
Lepus saxatilis |
Small-spotted genet |
Genetta genetta felina |
South African large-spotted genet |
Genetta tigrina tigrina |
Steenbok |
Raphicerus campestris |
Striped mouse |
Rhabdomys pumilio |
Striped polecat |
Ictonyx striatus |
Verreaux’s mouse |
Myomyscus verreauxii |
Vlei rat |
Otomys irroratus |
Yellow mongoose |
Cynictis penicillata |
BATS |
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Common name (as per Skinner & Chimimba, 2005) |
TaxonName |
Cape horseshoe bat |
Rhinolophus capensis |
Cape serotine bat |
Neoromicia capensis |
Egyptian free-tailed bat |
Tadarida aegyptiaca |
Egyptian slit-faced bat |
Nycteris thebaica |
Egyptian fruit bat |
Rousettus aegyptiacus |
Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat |
Rhinolophus clivosus |
Long-tailed serotine bat |
Eptesicus hottentotus |
Schreiber’s long-fingered bat |
Miniopterus schreibersii |
Temminck’s hairy bat |
Myotis tricolor |
WHALES & DOLPHINS |
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Common name (as per Skinner & Chimimba, 2005) |
TaxonName |
Arnoux’s beaked whale |
Berardius arnuxii |
Atlantic Ocean bottlenosed dolphin |
Tursiops truncatus |
Bryde’s whale |
Balaenoptera edeni |
Cuvier’s beaked whale |
Ziphius cavirostris |
False killer whale |
Pseudorca crassidens |
Humpback whale |
Megaptera novaeangliae |
Indian Ocean bottlenosed dolphin |
Tursiops aduncus |
Indo-pacific hump-backed dolphin |
Sousa chinensis |
Killer whale |
Orcinus orca |
Long-beaked common dolphin |
Delphinus capensis |
Pygmy killer whale |
Feresa attenuata |
Pygmy right whale |
Caperea marginata |
Pygmy sperm whale |
Kogia breviceps |
Risso’s dolphin |
Grampus griseus |
Short-beaked common dolphin |
Delphinus delphis |
Southern bottlenose whale |
Hyperoodon planifrons |
Southern long-finned pilot whale |
Globicephala melas edwardii |
Southern right whale |
Eubalaena australis |
Sperm whale |
Physeter macrocephalus |
Striped dolphin |
Stenella coeruleoalba |
SEALS |
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Common name (as per Skinner & Chimimba, 2005) |
TaxonName |
Aardwolf |
Proteles cristatus |
African buffalo |
Syncerus caffer caffer |
Bontebok |
Damaliscus pygargus pygargus |
Brown hyaena |
Parahyaena brunnea |
Cape fur seal |
Arctocephalus pusillus pussilus |
Eland |
Tragelaphus oryx oyx |
Hippopotamus |
Hippopotamus amphibius capensis |
Red hartebeest |
Alcelaphus buselaphus |
Serval |
Leptailurus serval serval |
Southern elephant seal |
Mirounga leonina |
White-tailed mouse |
Mystromys albicaudatus |