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SPECIES Kobus ellipsiprymnus

Author:Ogilby, 1833.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833: 47.
Common Name:Waterbuck
Type Locality:"about twenty-five days' journey north of the Orange River between Latakoo and the western coast of Africa". Since restricted to Botswana, Gaborone, the top reaches of the Notwani River; see Smithers (1971:233) and Grubb (1999:25-26).
Distribution:Mesic non-forested habitats in Angola, Benin, N and EC Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, N and S Dem. Rep. Congo, N Eritrea, Ethiopia, S Gabon, Gambia (extinct), Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, S Mali, S Mauritania, Mozambique, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), S Niger, Nigeria, S Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, E South Africa, Swaziland, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (cd) as K. ellipsiprymnus and subspecifically as K. e. defassa and K. e. ellipsiprymnus.
Comments:Reviewed by Ansell (1972:42); ellipsiprymnus division (includes also kondensis, pallidus and thikae) and defassa division (includes all other nominal subspecies) formerly regarded as species; they hybridize along a zone of contact (G. Peters, 1986) and differ in their centric fusion polymorphisms and structure of the Y chromosome (Kingswood et al, 1998b). Cotterill (2003a) treated crawshayi as a species.
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SUBSPECIES ellipsiprymnus

SUBSPECIES adolfifriderici

SUBSPECIES annectens

SUBSPECIES crawshayi

SUBSPECIES defassa

SUBSPECIES harnieri

SUBSPECIES kondensis

SUBSPECIES pallidus

SUBSPECIES penricei

SUBSPECIES thikae

SUBSPECIES tjaederi

SUBSPECIES tschadensis

SUBSPECIES unctuosus

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