Reduncinae

Reduncinae Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present
Kob
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Reduncinae Knottnerus-Meyer, 1907
Genera
Kobus Redunca Pelea

The bovid subfamily Reduncinae or tribe Reduncini ^[1] is composed of nine species of antelope, all of which dwell in marshes, floodplains, or other well-watered areas, including the waterbucks and reedbucks. ^[2] These antelopes first appear in the fossil record 7.4 million years ago in Eurasia and 6.6 Mya in Africa.

Taxonomy

• Family Bovidae
  • Subfamily Reduncinae
    • Genus Kobus
      • Waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus
      • Kob, Kobus kob
      • Lechwe, Kobus leche
      • Nile lechwe, Kobus megaceros
      • Puku, Kobus vardonii
    • Genus Redunca
      • Southern reedbuck, Redunca arundinum
      • Mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula
      • Bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca
    • Genus Pelea
      • Grey rhebok, Pelea capreolus
    • Genus † Menelikia
      • Menelikia leakeyi
      • Menelikia lyrocera
    • Genus † Procobus
      • Procobus brauneri
      • Procobus melania
    • Genus † Sivacobus (Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent) ^[3]
      • Sivacobus palaeindicus
      • Sivacobus patulicornis
      • Sivacobus sankaliai (Late Pleistocene)
    • Genus † Thaleroceros
      • Thaleroceros radiciformis
    • Genus † Zephyreduncinus
      • Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus

Alternate classification

• Adenota is an alternate genus or subgenus composed of the kob and puku. ^[4]

References

1. Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212 , retrieved 2022-01-30
2. "Subfamily Reduncinae - Rhebok, reedbucks, and waterbucks". www.ultimateungulate.com. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
3. Vrba, Elisabeth S.; Bibi, Faysal; Costa, August G. (2015-07-04). "First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4) e943399. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E3399V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943399. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   83914701.
4. Ronald, H. Pine (1993-02-19). "Nowak, R. M. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 5th ed., 1: i–xlviii + 1–642 + xlix–lxiii and 2: i–xiii + 643–1629 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3970-X. Price (hardbound)" . Journal of Mammalogy. 74 (1): 236–238. doi:10.2307/1381927. ISSN   0022-2372. JSTOR   1381927.