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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

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

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

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• Stuart, Chris & Stuart, Tilde (2007). Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa. Fourth edition. Cape Town:Struik Publ.

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