Antilope

Not to be confused with Antelope.

Antilope Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Recent
Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Antilopinae
Tribe:	Antilopini
Genus:	Antilope Pallas, 1766
Type species
Capra cervicapra [1] Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Antilope cervicapra † Antilope intermedia † Antilope subtorta

Antilope is a genus of twisted-horn bovid that contains a single living species, the blackbuck of South Asia. Two extinct species are also known. ^[2]

Many fossil antelopes were included in this genus, but have since been placed in new genera; for example the species formerly known as Antilope planicornis is now placed in its own genus, Nisidorcas . ^[3]

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
2. Khan, M.A.; Akhtar, M. (2014). "Antelopes (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Bovidae) from the Upper Siwaliks of Tatrot, Pakistan, with description of a new species". Paleontological Journal. 48 (1): 79–89. doi:10.1134/S0031030114010055. S2CID   84227895.
3. Geraads, Denis; Güleç, Erksin (1999). "On some spiral-horned antelopes (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Bovidae) from the upper Miocene of Turkey, with remarks on their distribution" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 73 (3/4): 403–409. doi:10.1007/BF02988051. S2CID   59452032. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2023.