The white-bellied duiker (''Cephalophus leucogaster'') is a
duiker found in central
Africa
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. Little is known on the
ecology
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of the species, and only some information on habitat and diet is available.
Duikers are a fairly small species of
antelope that originate from, and still reside in,
sub-Saharan Africa.
The white-bellied duiker ranges in
Cameroon
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, the
Central African Republic
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, the
Republic of the Congo, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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,
Equatorial Guinea, and
Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the nort ...
, while it is likely to have been extirpated in
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The sou ...
.
[(East, 1996)]
References
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white-bellied duiker
The white-bellied duiker (''Cephalophus leucogaster'') is a duiker found in central Africa. Little is known on the ecology of the species, and only some information on habitat and diet is available.
Duikers are a fairly small species of antelope ...
Fauna of Central Africa
white-bellied duiker
The white-bellied duiker (''Cephalophus leucogaster'') is a duiker found in central Africa. Little is known on the ecology of the species, and only some information on habitat and diet is available.
Duikers are a fairly small species of antelope ...
Taxa named by John Edward Gray