Genus Okapia (Noun)
Meaning
Okapis.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The okapi is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal that is native to the Ituri Rainforest in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo belonging to the genus Okapia.
- In 1987 the okapi was reclassified from its own monotypic family, the Okapiidae, to the Giraffidae family, with the single genus Okapia.
- Only a few living species outside the genus Okapia retain such stripes, the genets and slender lorises.
- The taxonomy of the genus Okapia is not without controversy and is the subject of ongoing debate among zoologists and evolutionary biologists.
- Okapia johnstoni is at present considered to be a monotypic species within the genus Okapia.