An alternative or variant term for the dibatag, the small Ethiopian-Somali hoofed mammal.
From the same Somali root as dibatag, this represents a variant spelling or scientific nomenclature variation used in early zoological literature.
Scientific names often had multiple spellings in the 19th century before standardization—dibatis and dibatag represent competing ways naturalists tried to capture the Somali word in Roman letters, a problem that happened often in African fauna.
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