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Antilopinae

(Subfamily)

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Antilopinae is a subfamily of Bovidae. The gazelles, blackbucks, springboks, gerenuks, dibatags and Central Asian gazelles are often referred to as "True Antelopes" and are usually the sole representatives of the Antilopinae. "True Antelopes" occur in much of Africa and Asia with the highest concentration of species occurring in East Africa in Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. The saigas and Tibetan antelopes are related to "True Antelopes" (Antilopinae) and goats (Caprinae), but often placed in their own subfamily, Saiginae. These animals inhabit much of Central and Western Asia. The dwarf antelopes are sometimes placed in a separate subfamily, Neotraginae, and live entirely in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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FAMILY BOVIDAE

See also

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Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Antilopinae is a member of the Family Bovidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Antilopinae:

The Subfamily Antilopinae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Ammodorcas

The dibatag (Ammodorcas clarkei), or Clarke's gazelle, is an antelope found in the sandy grasslands of Ethiopia and Somalia. Not a true gazelle, it is similarly marked, with a long, furry black tail which is raised in flight. This gave rise to its name, which means "erect tail" in Somali. [more]

Antidorcas

The springbok (Afrikaans and Dutch: = jump; bok = antelope or goat) (Antidorcas marsupialis) is a medium-sized brown and white gazelle that stands about 70 to 90 cm (28 to 35 in) high. Springbok males weigh between 33 and 50 kg (73 and 110 lb) and the females between 25 and 40 kg (55 and 88 lb). They can reach running speeds of up to 90 km/h (56 mph), to 96 km/h (60 mph) and can leap 4 m (13 feet) into the air and can long jump of up to 15 m (50 feet). [more]

Antilope

Antilope is a genus of antelope in the subfamily Antilopinae that contains a single living species, the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) and fossil species such as , Antilope planicornis, and Antilope intermedius. [more]

Antilospira

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Dorcadoryx

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Dorcatragus

The beira (Dorcatragus megalotis) is a small antelope that inhabits arid regions of Somalia, Djibouti, and eastern Ethiopia. [more]

Gazella

Gazellospira

Homoiodorcas

Litocranius

The gerenuk (Litocranius walleri), also known as the Waller's gazelle, is a long-necked species of antelope found in dry bushy scrub and steppe in East Africa, from Somalia and eastern Ethiopia through northern and eastern Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. The word gerenuk (pronounced with a hard g) comes from the Somali language, meaning ?giraffe-necked.? Gerenuk are sometimes also called the giraffe-necked antelope. It is the only member of the genus Litocranius. [more]

Madoqua

A dik-dik, pronounced "dik? dik", is a small antelope in the Genus Madoqua that lives in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa. Dik-diks stand 30?40 cm (approx. 12?16 inches) at the shoulder, are 50?70 cm (approx. 20-28 inches) long, weigh 3?6 kg (approx. 7-16 pounds) and can live for up to 10 years. Dik-diks are named for the alarm calls of the females. In addition to the female's alarm call, both the male and female make a shrill whistling sound. These calls may alert other animals to predators. [more]

Neotragus

Neotragus is a of antelope. The three species are native animals of Africa. [more]

Nesotragus

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[1] [more]

Nisidorcas

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Oreotragus

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[2] [more]

Ourebia

Oribi (Ourebia ourebi, known as Oorbietjie in Afrikaans) are graceful slender-legged, long-necked small antelope found in grassland almost throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. [more]

Pantholops

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Procapra

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Prostrepsiceros

Raphicerus

Raphicerus is a of small antelopes of the Tribe Neotragini (Subfamily Antilopinae). [more]

Saiga

The saiga (Saiga tatarica) is a Critically Endangered antelope which originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothills of the Carpathians and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia. They also lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Today the nominate subspecies (Saiga tatarica tatarica) is only found in one location in Russia (steppes of the North-West Precaspian region) and three areas in Kazakhstan (the Ural, Ustiurt and Betpak-dala populations). A proportion of the Ustiurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally Turkmenistan in winter. It is extinct in China and southwestern Mongolia. The Mongolian subspecies (Saiga tatarica mongolica) is found only in western Mongolia. [more]

Spirocerus

Tragospira

More info about the Genus Tragospira may be found here.

Footnotes

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  1. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113149
  2. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=106148

Sources

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 13:46:25