Tiang (antelope)

The tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang) is a subspecies of the common tsessebe, an African antelope. Tiang are found primarily in southern Chad, the northern Central African Republic, and southwestern Sudan to southwestern Ethiopia, and extreme northwestern Kenya.[2][3][4][5]

Tiang

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
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)

References

  1. IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2017). "Damaliscus lunatus ssp. tiang". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
  2. East, Rod; IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group (1998). "African Antelope Database". Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
  3. Damaliscus lunatus, MSW3
  4. Dorgeloh, Werner G. (2006). "Habitat Suitability for tsessebe Damaliscus lunatus lunatus". African Journal of Ecology. 44: 329–336. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00654.x.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2012-06-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) African Game Guide Hartebeest Tiang


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