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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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