Antidorcas

Antidorcas Temporal range: 5.3–0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Pliocene–Recent
Scientific classification
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]}

Modern Taxonomy

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]

	Gazelle (Gazella) Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Nanger Eudorcas Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) Saiga (Saiga tatarica)

Species

• Antidorcas marsupialis - Springbok
• Antidorcas australis
• Antidorcas bondi
• † Antidorcas recki

References

1. Hendey, Q.B. (1974). "THE LATE CENOZOIC CARNIVORA OF THE SOUTHWESTERN CAPE PROVINCE SOUTH AFRICA". Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. 63: 1–369.
2. Faith, J. Tyler (2014). "Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa" . Earth-Science Reviews. 128: 105–121. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.10.009.
3. Bärmann, E.V.; Rössner, G.E.; Wörheide, G. (2013). "A revised phylogeny of Antilopini (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) using combined mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 67 (2): 484–493. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.015. PMID   23485920.
4. Marcot, J.D. (2007). "Molecular phylogeny of terrestrial artiodactyls". In Prothero, D.R.; Foss, S.E. (eds.). The Evolution of Artiodactyls (Illustrated ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 4–18. ISBN   978-0-8018-8735-2.