Antilopinae
Appearance
Antilopinae | |
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Mature male Indianblackbuck(Antilope cervicapra) | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Antilopinae Gray,1821 |
Genera | |
See text. |
Theantilopinesareeven-toed ungulatesbelonging to thesubfamilyAntilopinaeof the familyBovidae.The members of tribeAntilopiniare often referred to as trueantelopes,and include thegazelles,blackbucks,springboks,gerenuks,dibatags,and Central Asian gazelles. True antelopes occur in much of Africa and Asia, with the highest concentration of species occurring inEast AfricainSudan,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Somalia,Kenya,andTanzania.Thesaiga(tribeSaigini) inhabits Central and Western Asia, mostly in regions from theTibetan Plateauand north of theIndian Subcontinent.The dwarf antelope species of tribeNeotraginilive entirely in sub-Saharan Africa.
Classification
[edit]FamilyBovidae
- Subfamily Antilopinae
- TribeAntilopini
- GenusAmmodorcas
- DibatagAmmodorcas clarkei
- GenusAntidorcas
- SpringbokAntidorcas marsupialis
- GenusAntilope
- BlackbuckAntilope cervicapra
- GenusEudorcas
Thomson's gazelle(Eudorcas thomsoni) - Mongalla gazelleEudorcas albonotata
- Red gazelleEudorcas rufina†
- Red-fronted gazelleEudorcas rufrifrons
- Thomson's gazelleEudorcas thomsoni
- Heuglin's gazelleEudorcas tilonura
- GenusGazella
- SubgenusDeprezia
- SubgenusGazella
Mountain gazelle(Gazella gazella) - Arabian gazelleGazella arabica
- European gazelleGazella borbonica†
- Chinkara or Indian gazelleGazella benettii
- Queen of Sheba's gazelleGazella bilkis†
- Dorcas gazelleGazella dorcas
- Mountain gazelleGazella gazella
- Saudi gazelleGazella saudiya†
- Speke's gazelleGazella spekei
- SubgenusTrachelocele
- Cuvier's gazelleGazella cuvieri
- Rhim gazelleor slender-horned gazelleGazella leptoceros
- Goitered gazelleGazella subgutturosa
- GenusLitocranius
Gerenuk(Litocranius walleri) - GerenukLitocranius walleri
- GenusNanger
- Dama gazelleNanger dama
- Grant's gazelleNanger granti
- Soemmerring's gazelleNanger soemmerringii
- GenusProcapra
- ZerenProcapra gutturosa
- GoaProcapra picticaudata
- Przewalski's gazelleProcapra przewalskii
- GenusAmmodorcas
- TribeSaigini
Saiga(Saiga tatarica) - TribeNeotragini
- GenusDorcatragus
Kirk's dik-dik(Madoqua kirkii) - BeiraDorcatragus megalotis
- GenusMadoqua
- Günther's dik-dikMadoqua guntheri
- Kirk's dik-dikMadoqua kirkii
- Silver dik-dikMadoqua piacentinii
- Salt's dik-dikMadoqua saltiana
- GenusNeotragus
- Royal antelopeNeotragus pygmaeus
- GenusOurebia
- OribiOurebia ourebi
- GenusRaphicerus
- SteenbokRaphicerus campestris
- Cape grysbokRaphicerus melanotis
- Sharpe's grysbokRaphicerus sharpei
- GenusDorcatragus
- TribeAntilopini
Fossil genera[1]
- †Demecquenemia
- †Deprezia
- †Dytikodorcas
- †Hispanodorcas
- †Homoiodorcas
- †Majoreas
- †Nisidorcas
- †Ouzocerus
- †Parantidorcas
- †Parastrepsiceros[2]
- †Praemadoqua[3]
- †Prostrepsiceros
- †Sinapodorcas
- †Tyrrhenotragus
References
[edit]- ^"Antilopini".Biolib.
- ^Kostopoulos, D. (1998). "Parastrepsiceros koufosi n. sp. (Mammalia: Bovidae); note on the possible presence of a Prostrepsiceros descendant in the latest Pliocene of northern Greece".Biology Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia.
- ^"Praemadoqua".Fossilworks.