| Hippotragus Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Present
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| Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Hippotraginae |
| Genus: | Hippotragus Sundevall, 184512 |
| Type species | |
| Antilope equina12 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 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 |
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H. equinus | Roan antelope | West, Central, East and Southern Africa |
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H. niger | Sable antelope | East Africa, south of Kenya, and Southern Africa |
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H. leucophaeus | †Bluebuck or blue antelope | the southwestern Cape of South Africa |
Fossil species
- †Hippotragus gigas4
- †Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium5
References
References
- Grubb, Peter (2001). "Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): proposed conservation". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 52 (2): 126–132.
- 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.). Baltimore: 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.