Damaliscus

Damaliscus
	A female topi (Damaliscus lunatus jimela)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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; †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. jimela Matschie, 1892 – topi^[4] D. l. korrigum Ogilby, 1836 – korrigum^[4] D. l. lunatus – common tsessebe D. superstes (Cotterill, 2003) - Bangweulu tsessebe D. l. tiang (Heuglin, 1863) – tiang^[4] D. l. topi Blaine, 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. phillipsi Harper, 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

^ 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.
^ "Genus Damaliscus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
^ Kingdon, J (2015-04-23). The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp. 428–431. ISBN 9781472921352.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d East, Rod (1998). "African Antelope Database". IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
^ ^a ^b 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.

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