Inzovu zo mu mashyamba ya Afurika

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African forest elephant

Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
African forest elephants in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genus: Loxodonta
Species:
L. cyclotis[2]
Binomial name
Loxodonta cyclotis[2]

(Matschie, 1900)
Map of Africa showing highlighted range (in brown) covering a portion of western Central Africa
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  Resident
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  Possibly Extant (resident)
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  Possibly extinct

Inzovu yo mu mashyamba yo muri Afurika (Loxodonta cyclotis) ni bumwe mu bwoko bubiri bw'inzovu zo muri Afurika. Ikomoka mu mashyamba atoshye yo muri Afurika y'Iburengerazuba no mu kibaya cya Kongo. Ni ntoya mu moko atatu y'inzovu nzima, igera ku burebure bw'igitugu cya m 2,4 (7 ft 10 muri). Ibitsina byombi bifite ibibyimba bigororotse, byerekana hasi, biturika iyo bafite imyaka 1-3. Yibera mumatsinda yabantu bagera kuri 20. Kubera ko irisha amababi, imbuto, imbuto, n'ibishishwa by'ibiti, byiswe 'megagardener w'ishyamba'. Ifite uruhare runini mu kubungabunga imiterere n’imiterere y’amashyamba ya Gineya yo muri Afurika y’iburengerazuba n’amashyamba y’imvura ya Kongo.

Ibisobanuro bya mbere bya siyansi by’ubwoko byasohotse mu 1900. Mu kinyejana cya 20, guhiga byatumye umubare w'abaturage ugabanuka cyane, kandi mu 2013 byagereranijwe ko hasigaye abantu batageze ku 30.000. Irabangamiwe no gutakaza aho gutura, gucikamo ibice, no guhiga. Imiterere yo kubungabunga abaturage iratandukanye mu bihugu bitandukanye. Kuva mu 2021, ubwoko bwashyizwe ku rutonde nk’ibangamiwe cyane ku rutonde rutukura rwa IUCN.

Amatagisi

hindura

Loxodonte yasabwe nk'izina rusange ry’inzovu zo muri Afurika na Frédéric Cuvier mu 1825. Iri zina ryerekeza kuri emamel ya lozenge imeze nk'amenyo ya molar, itandukanye cyane n'imiterere y'inzovu y'inzovu yo muri Aziya. Loxodonte yashyizwe mu majwi i Loxodonta n'umwanditsi utazwi mu 1827.

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gobush, K.S.; Edwards, C.T.T.; Maisels, F.; Wittemyer, G.; Balfour, D.; Taylor, R.D. (2021). "Loxodonta cyclotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T181007989A204404464. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Shoshani, J. (2005). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "msw3" defined multiple times with different content