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Grazing antelope

Grazing antelopes

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Hippotraginae

Tribes

Reduncini
Alcelaphini
Hippotragini

A grazing antelope is any of the 23 species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae in the family Bovidae, which also includes sheep, goats, and cattle.

FAMILY BOVIDAE
- Subfamily Bovinae: wild cattle and spiral-horned antelopes, 24 species in 9 genera
- Subfamily Cephalophinae: duikers, 19 species in 2 genera
- Subfamily Hippotraginae
  - Tribe Reduncini
    - Southern Reedbuck, Redunca arundinum
    - Mountain Reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula
    - Bohor Reedbuck, Redunca redunca
    - Gray Rhebok, Pelea capreolus
    - Waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus
    - Kob, Kobus kob
    - Lechwe, Kobus leche
    - Nile Lechwe, Kobus megaceros
    - Puka, Kobus vardonii
  - Tribe Alcelaphini
    - Hirola, Beatragus hunteri
    - Topi, Damaliscus lunatus
    - Bontebok, Damaliscus pygargus
    - Hartebeest[?], Alcelaphus buselaphus
    - Lichtenstein's Hartebeest, Alcelaphus lichtensteinii
    - Black Wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou
    - Blue Wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus
    - Impala[?], Aepyceros melampus
  - Tribe Hippotragini
    - Roan Antelope, Hippotragus equinus
    - Sable Antelope, Hippotragus niger
    - Scimitar Oryx, Oryx dammah
    - Gemsbok[?], Oryx gazella
    - Arabian Oryx[?], Oryx leucoryx
    - Addax, Addax nasomaculatus
- Subfamily Antilopinae[?]: gazelles, dwarf antelopes and the Sagia, 38 species in 14 genera
- Subfamily Caprinae: sheep, goats, cattle and allies

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