Damaliscus

Damaliscus
A female topi (Damaliscus lunatus jimela)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Alcelaphinae
Genus:	Damaliscus P.L. Sclater & Thomas, 1894
Type species
Antilope pygargus Pallas, 1767
Species
Damaliscus lunatus Damaliscus pygargus – bontebok † Damaliscus hypsodon † Damaliscus niro
Subspecies range map of the genus Damaliscus

The genus Damaliscus, commonly known as damalisks, is a genus of antelope in the family Bovidae, subfamily Alcelaphinae, found in Africa.

Species

Listed alphabetically. ^{[1] [2]}

Genus Damaliscus – P.L. Sclater & Thomas, 1894 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
topi, tiang or tsessebe [3]	Damaliscus lunatus Burchell, 1824 [4] Six subspecies D. l. jimelaMatschie, 1892 – topi [4] D. l. korrigumOgilby, 1836 – korrigum [4] D. l. lunatus – common tsessebe D. superstes(Cotterill, 2003) - Bangweulu tsessebe D. l. tiang(Heuglin, 1863) – tiang [4] D. l. topiBlaine, 1914 – coastal topi	Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
bontebok	Damaliscus pygargus (Pallas, 1767) Two subspecies D. p. phillipsiHarper, 1939 – blesbok D. p. pygargus(Pallas, 1767) – bontebok	South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
	† Damaliscus hypsodon (Faith et al., 2012)	Known from the Middle-Late Pleistocene of East Africa; became extinct at the onset of the Holocene due to the loss of its grassland habitat [5]	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EX
	† Damaliscus niro Hopwood, 1936	Known from throughout the Pleistocene of eastern and southern Africa; became extinct around 63,000 years ago. [5]	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EX

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. "Genus Damaliscus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
3. Kingdon, J (2015-04-23). The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp. 428–431. ISBN   9781472921352.
4. East, Rod (1998). "African Antelope Database". IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
5. Faith, J. Tyler; Potts, Richard; Plummer, Thomas W.; Bishop, Laura C.; Marean, Curtis W.; Tryon, Christian A. (November 2012). "New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 361–362: 84–93. Bibcode:2012PPP...361...84F. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.005.

• Stuart, Chris & Stuart, Tilde (2007). Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa. Fourth edition. Cape Town:Struik Publ.