Biology:Hippotragus
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Short description: Genus of mammals
Hippotragus | |
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Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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
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Species | |
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Hippotragus /hɪˈpɒtrəɡəs/ is a genus of antelopes which includes two living and one recently extinct species,[3] as well as some fossil relatives. The name comes from Greek ἵππος (híppos), "horse", and τράγος (trágos), "he-goat".
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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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
- †Hippotragus gigas[4]
- †Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grubb, Peter (2001). "Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): proposed conservation". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 52 (2): 126–132. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33817975.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ICZN (2003). "Opinion 2030 (Case 3178). Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): conserved". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 60 (1): 90-91. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34357832.
- ↑ Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 718. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200947.
- ↑ "Hippotragus gigas". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=374858.
- ↑ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 773-774. ISBN 9780520257214.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q516624 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippotragus.
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