Hippotragus/hɪˈpɒtrəɡəs/ 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
†Hippotragus gigas[4]
†Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium[5]
^ abGrubb, Peter (2001). "Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): proposed conservation". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 52 (2): 126–132.
^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.
^Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 773-774. ISBN 9780520257214.
"he-goat". Fossil species †Hippotragus gigas †Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium Grubb, Peter (2001). "Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia...
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The roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) is a large savanna-dwelling antelope found in western, central, and southern Africa. Named for its roan colour...
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Hippotragus gigas is an extinct species of antelope known from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. Hippotragus gigas was discovered by Louis Leakey in 1965...
The giant sable antelope or royal sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani), also known in Portuguese as the palanca-negra-gigante, is a large, rare...
63,000 years ago. Arthur Tindell Hopwood described Damaliscus niro as Hippotragus niro in 1936 from a horn core collected by L.S.B. Leakey from a site...
Zabulon skipper (Lon zabulon) and vertebrates. The extinct bluebuck (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was known to graze these grasses. The dense bunches also...
Thompson, K. V. "Flehmen and birth synchrony among female sable antelope, Hippotragus-niger". 1995. Animal Behavior 50: 475–84. Wolff, J. O. "Breeding strategies...
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