Tiang (antelope)

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Tiang
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In Zakouma National Park, Chad
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Damaliscus
Species:
Subspecies:
D. l. tiang
Trinomial name
Damaliscus lunatus tiang
(Heuglin, 1863)
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Range in light green

The tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang) is a subspecies of the topi, an African antelope.

Depending on which topi populations are classified as tiang, they may be found in southern Chad, the northern Central African Republic, and southwestern South Sudan to southwestern Ethiopia, and extreme northwestern Kenya, [2] or Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia. [3]

References

  1. IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2017). "Damaliscus lunatus ssp. tiang". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T6242A50185852. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T6242A50185852.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. East, Rod; IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group (1998). "African Antelope Database". Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
  3. "Game Hunting Africa". Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2012-06-08. African Game Guide Hartebeest Tiang