Amsterdam Quagga
Catalogue number : ZMA 522
Sex: female
Locality:
Date of acquisition: 1883
Remarks on acquisition: animal lived at Amsterdam Zoo, 9 May 1867 - 12 August
1883
History of mount: original mount by Inspector Kerz (Hilzheimer 1912: 91 )
Measurements:
head - body |
2,28 m |
tail |
0,46 m |
ear |
0,16 m |
hindfoot |
0,46 m |
shoulder height |
1,20 m
|
State of preservation: very good
Further material of same individual: skull in collection. It appears from
Hilzheimer (1912: 98) that the foot bones of this specimen were at Stuttgart but they are
no longer there, nor is there any record of them.
References: Lydekker (1904); Renshaw (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Hilzheimer (1912);
Griffini (1913); Antonius (1931); Van Bruggen (1959)
