Donkey have worked together with humans for millennia. Traditionally, the scientific name for the donkey is "Equus asinus asinus" based on the principle of priority used for scientific names of animals. However, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 2003 that if the domestic species and the wild species are considered subspecies of one another, the scientific name of the wild species has priority, even when that subspecies was described after the domestic subspecies. This means that the proper scientific name for the donkey is "Equus africanus asinus" when it is considered a subspecies, and "Equus asinus" when it is
Gloeoporus africanus Gloeoporus africanus Gloeoporus africanus is a species of crust fungus in the family Irpicaceae. Found in Africa, it was described as a new species in 2018 by Paul Jung and Young Wood Lim. The type collection was made in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, where it was found growing on a fallen branch. It is somewhat similar in appearance to "Bjerkandera adusta", but is distinguished from that fungus by its angular pores and the white edges of the actively growing pore surface. "G. africanus" has a monomitic hyphal system, and its generative hyphae have clamp connections. Its spores are sausage-shaped