Genus of mammals
Hippotragus 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".
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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
^ a b Grubb, Peter (2001). "Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): proposed conservation" . The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature . 52 (2): 126– 132.
^ a b ICZN (2003). "Opinion 2030 (Case 3178). Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): conserved" . The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature . 60 (1): 90– 91.
^ 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 .
^ "Hippotragus gigas" . Fossilworks . Archived from the original on 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2021-12-17 .
^ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa . University of California Press. p. 773-774. ISBN 9780520257214 .
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