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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Alcelaphinae
--> GENUS Beatragus
SPECIES Beatragus hunteri
| Author: | P. L. Sclater, 1889. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889: 58. | | Common Name: | Hunter's Hartebeest | | Type Locality: | Kenya, "Africam orientalem, in ripis fl. Tana" (E bank of Tana River). | | Distribution: | N Kenya, S Somalia. Introduced into Tsavo National Park, Kenya. | | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered as Damaliscus hunteri. | | Comments: | Included in Damaliscus lunatus by Haltenorth (1963:100). Formerly in Beatragus; see Ansell (1972:54); retained in Beatragus by Gentry and Gentry (1978) and Gentry (1990). Differs from Damaliscus (and Alcelaphus) in independent fusions of formerly acrocentric chromosomes (Kumamoto et al., 1996). |
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