Damaliscus
Appearance
Damaliscus | |
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A female topi (Damaliscus lunatus jimela) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
Genus: | Damaliscus P.L. Sclater & Thomas, 1894 |
Species | |
See text | |
Subspecies range map of the genus Damaliscus |
Damaliscus, commonly known as tsessebes, is a genus of antelope in the family Bovidae, subfamily Alcelaphinae, found in Africa.
Species
Image and scientific name | Subspecies | Common name | Distribution |
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D. lunatus Burchell, 1824[3] |
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common tsessebe |
Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and South Africa |
D. pygargus (Pallas, 1767) |
bontebok | South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia | |
D. superstes (Cotterill, 2003) |
Bangweulu tsessebe | northeastern Zambia | |
†D. hypsodon (Faith et al., 2012) | Known from the Middle-Late Pleistocene of East Africa; became extinct at the onset of the Holocene due to the loss of its grassland habitat[4] | ||
†D. niro |
References
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- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
- ^ a b c d East, Rod (1998). "African Antelope Database". IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
- ^ Faith, J. Tyler; Potts, Richard; Plummer, Thomas W.; Bishop, Laura C.; Marean, Curtis W.; Tryon, Christian A. (November 2012). "New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 361–362: 84–93. Bibcode:2012PPP...361...84F. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.005.
- Stuart, Chris & Stuart, Tilde (2007). Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa. Fourth edition. Cape Town:Struik Publ.