Hippotragus

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Hippotragus
Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Hippotraginae
Genus: Hippotragus
Sundevall, 1845[1][2]
Type species
Antilope equina[1][2]
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803
Species

Hippotragus /hɪˈpɒtrəɡəs/ is a genus of antelopes which includes two living and one recently extinct species,[3] as well as some fossil relatives. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), meaning "horse", and τράγος (trágos), meaning "he-goat", and thus, "horse goat".

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
H. equinus Roan antelope West, Central, East and Southern Africa
H. niger Sable antelope East Africa, south of Kenya, and Southern Africa
H. leucophaeus †Bluebuck or blue antelope the southwestern Cape of South Africa

Fossil species

References

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  1. ^ a b Grubb, Peter (2001). "Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): proposed conservation". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 52 (2): 126–132.
  2. ^ a b ICZN (2003). "Opinion 2030 (Case 3178). Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): conserved". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 60 (1): 90–91.
  3. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 718. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  4. ^ "Hippotragus gigas". Fossilworks. Archived from the original on 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  5. ^ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 773-774. ISBN 9780520257214.
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