Biology:Reduncinae
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Short description: Subfamily of mammals
| Reduncinae Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Reduncinae Knottnerus-Meyer, 1907 |
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The bovid subfamily Reduncinae or tribe Reduncini[1] is composed of nine species of antelope, all of which dwell in marshes, floodplains, or other well-watered areas, including the waterbucks and reedbucks.[2] These antelopes first appear in the fossil record 7.4 million years ago in Eurasia and 6.6 Mya in Africa.
Taxonomy
- Family Bovidae
- Subfamily Reduncinae
- Genus Kobus
- Waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus
- Kob, Kobus kob
- Lechwe, Kobus leche
- Nile lechwe, Kobus megaceros
- Puku, Kobus vardonii
- Genus Redunca
- Southern reedbuck, Redunca arundinum
- Mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula
- Bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca
- Genus Pelea
- Grey rhebok, Pelea capreolus
- Genus †Menelikia
- Menelikia leakeyi
- Menelikia lyrocera
- Genus †Procobus
- Procobus brauneri
- Procobus melania
- Genus †Sivacobus (Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent)[3]
- Sivacobus palaeindicus
- Sivacobus patulicornis
- Sivacobus sankaliai (Late Pleistocene)
- Genus †Thaleroceros
- Thaleroceros radiciformis
- Genus †Zephyreduncinus
- Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus
- Genus Kobus
- Subfamily Reduncinae
Alternate classification
- Adenota is an alternate genus or subgenus composed of the kob and puku.[4]
References
- ↑ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212, https://zenodo.org/record/5651212, retrieved 2022-01-30
- ↑ "Subfamily Reduncinae - Rhebok, reedbucks, and waterbucks". http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Reduncinae.html.
- ↑ Vrba, Elisabeth S.; Bibi, Faysal; Costa, August G. (2015-07-04). "First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (4): e943399. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943399. ISSN 0272-4634. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2014.943399.
- ↑ Ronald, H. Pine (1993-02-19). "Nowak, R. M. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 5th ed., 1: i–xlviii + 1–642 + xlix–lxiii and 2: i–xiii + 643–1629 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3970-X. Price (hardbound)" (in en). Journal of Mammalogy 74 (1): 236–238. doi:10.2307/1381927. ISSN 0022-2372. https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/74/1/236/831695.
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