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Photograph of the Tring Quagga

Tring Quagga

Catalogue number : 394830

Sex:  appears to be female; two large nipples present, vulva skin forming hump

Locality: -

Date of acquisition: 1889

History of mount: re-mounted by Edw. Gerrard before 1889

Measurements:

head - body

2,37 m

tail

0,37 m

ear

0,18 m

hindfoot, left

0,48 m

hindfoot, right

0,47 m

shoulder height

1,19 m

State of preservation:  good

Further material of same individual: skeleton was mounted at Amsterdam in 1855- now lost (Tuijn 1966)

References:  Sclater (1901); Pocock (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Griffini (1913); Antonius (1931); Tuijn (1966)

 



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