Editing Mountain zebra (section)

==Taxonomy==
The mountain zebra comprises two [[subspecies]]:
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! Image !! Subspecies !!  Distribution
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|[[File:Karoo National Park 2014 35.jpg|150px]]|| [[Cape mountain zebra]] (''E. z. zebra'')|| Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. 
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|[[File:Equus zebra hartmannae - Etosha 2015.jpg|150px]]|| [[Hartmann's mountain zebra]] (''E. z.  hartmannae'')||  south-western Angola and western Namibia. 
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In 2004, [[Colin Groves|C. P. Groves]] and C. H. Bell investigated the [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] of the [[zebra]]s (genus ''Equus'', subgenus ''Hippotigris''). They concluded that the {{sic|Cape|hide=y|reason="Cape" is capitalized here because it is a reference to Cape Province, South Africa, not any random cape.}} mountain zebra (''Equus zebra zebra'') and Hartmann's mountain zebra (''Equus zebra hartmannae'') are distinct, and suggested that the two would be better classified as separate species, ''Equus zebra'' and ''Equus hartmannae''.<ref name="GrB">{{Cite journal | last1 = Groves | first1 = C. P. | last2 = Bell | first2 = C. H. | doi = 10.1078/1616-5047-00133 | title = New investigations on the taxonomy of the zebras genus ''Equus'', subgenus ''Hippotigris'' | journal = Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde | volume = 69 | issue = 3 | pages = 182 | year = 2004 | bibcode = 2004MamBi..69..182G }}</ref>

However, in a sexual [[Genetics|genetic]] study that included 295 mountain zebra [[Biological specimen|specimens]], Moodley and Harley (2005) found nothing to support the separation of the two mountain zebra populations into separate species. They concluded that the Cape mountain zebra and Hartmann's mountain zebra should remain as subspecies.<ref>Moodley, Y. & Harley, E. H. 2005 Population structuring in mountain zebras (Equus zebra): the molecular consequences of divergent demographic histories. ''Conservation Genetics'' 6: 953–968.</ref>

This is consistent with the third edition of ''[[Mammal Species of the World]]'' (2005), which lists the mountain zebra as a single species (''Equus zebra'') with two subspecies.<ref name=MSW3>Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (2005) ''Mammal Species of the World''. Johns Hopkins University Press; 3rd ed. {{ISBN|978-0801882210}}</ref>