Taurotragus oryx
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Description
Taurotragus oryx (Pallas 1766)
[Antilope] oryx Pallas 1766, Misc. Zool.: 9.
Type Locality: Known to the Dutch "ad Promontorium B. Spei", restricted to South Africa, Western Cape Prov., near Cape Town by Shortridge (1934:607).
Vernacular Names: Common Eland.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Taurotragus oryx subsp. oryx Pallas 1766
Subspecies Taurotragus oryx subsp. livingstonei P. L. Sclater 1864
Subspecies Taurotragus oryx subsp. pattersonianus Lydekker 1906
Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Burundi (extinct), S Dem. Rep. Congo, Ethiopia (seasonal in Omo Valley), Kenya, Lesotho (seasonal), Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, SE Sudan, Swaziland (extinct, reintroduced), Tanzania, Uganda, S Zaire, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd) as Tragelaphus oryx.
Discussion: Systematics modified from Ansell (1972:27).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/AB6A4FBA464988A6B3A53F4B8CD52B4B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/EBBDCA9C122FC3E287541E1F7F83081B (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231541245 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Taurotragus
- Species
- oryx
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Taurotragus oryx (Pallas, 1766) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Shortridge, G. C. 1934. The mammals of South West Africa. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 779 pp.
- Ansell, W. F. H. 1972. Order Artiodactyla. Part 15. Pp. 1 - 84, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 2 May 1972]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.