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Hippotragus equinus

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Hippotragus equinus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803)

[Antilope] equina E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 259.

Type Locality: "Inconnue"; now thought to be South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Plettenberg Bay (Grubb, 1999).

Vernacular Names: Roan Antelope.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. equinus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. bakeri Heuglin 1863

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. cottoni Dollman and Burlace 1928

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. koba Gray 1872

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. langheldi Matschie 1898

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. scharicus Schwarz 1913

Distribution: Savanna woodland in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi (extinct), N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, N and S Dem. Rep. Congo, N Eritrea (extinct?), W Ethiopia, Gambia (extinct), Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, S Mali, S Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, S Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, E South Africa, Swaziland (extinct, reintroduced), Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. No evidence of occurrence in Sierra Leone (Grubb et al., 1998).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: For dating the name to É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803 see Grubb (2001 a) and Opinion 2005 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2002 b). The type locality was selected as South Africa, Northern Cape, Lataku (= Kuruman) by Harper (1940), but there is evidence to show that the holotype was collected much farther south where the species no longer occurs, at Plettenberg Bay (Grubb, 1999). Subspecific systematics follows Ansell (1972:46).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 717, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Hippotragus
Species
equinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hippotragus equinus (Saint-Hilaire, 1803) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1803. Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 272 pp.
  • Grubb, P. 1999. Types and type localities of ungulates named from southern Africa. Koedoe, 42: 13 - 45.
  • Grubb, P., T. S. Jones, A. G. Davies, E. Edberg, E. D. Starin, and J. E. Hill. 1998. Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. The Trendrine Press, Cornwall, 265 pp.
  • Grubb, P. 2001 a. Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803): Proposed placement on the Offical List of Works Available for Zoological Nomenclature. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 58: 41 - 52.
  • International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2002 b. Opinion 2005 (Case 3022). Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Hisoire Naturelle by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803): Placed on the Official List of Works Approved as Available for Zoological Nomenclature. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 59: 153 - 154.
  • Harper, F. 1940. The nomenclature and type localities of certain Old World mammals. Journal of Mammalogy, 2 l: 191 - 203; 322 - 332.
  • 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.