Antidorcas Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Antilopinae |
Tribe: | Antilopini |
Genus: | Antidorcas Sundevall, 1847 |
Type species | |
Antidorcas marsupialis (Zimmermann, 1780) | |
Species | |
1 living, several extinct (see text) |
Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species. [1] [2]
In 2013, Eva Verena Bärmann (of the University of Cambridge) and colleagues undertook a revision of the phylogeny of the tribe Antilopini on the basis of nuclear and mitochondrial data. They showed that the springbok and the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) form a clade with saiga (Saiga tatarica) as sister taxon. [3] The study pointed out that the saiga and the springbok could be considerably different from the rest of the antilopines; a 2007 phylogenetic study even suggested that the two form a clade sister to the gerenuk. [4] The cladogram below is based on the 2013 study. [3]