Damaliscus

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

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
Species
See text D. lunatus D. pygargus D. superstes
Subspecies range map of the genus Damaliscus

Species

Listed alphabetically.[1][2]

Image and scientific name	Subspecies	Common name	Distribution
D. lunatus Burchell, 1824[3]	D. l. jimela Matschie, 1892 – topi[3] D. l. korrigum Ogilby, 1836 – korrigum[3] D. l. lunatus – common tsessebe D. l. tiang – tiang[3] D. l. topi Blaine, 1914 – coastal topi	common tsessebe	Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and South Africa
D. pygargus (Pallas, 1767)	D. p. phillipsi Harper, 1939 – blesbok D. p. pygargus (Pallas, 1767) – bontebok	bontebok	South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia
D. superstes (Cotterill, 2003)		Bangweulu tsessebe	northeastern Zambia
†D. 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[4]

References

1. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
3. East, Rod (1998). "African Antelope Database". IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
4. 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.