| Comments: | Distribution and status of introduced populations reviewed by Lever (1985). Distribution and status of African species reviewed by East (1988, 1989, 1990) and East et al. (1999). Systematics of African species reviewed by Ansell (1972) and Gentry (1972). Family-group names reviewed by Grubb (2001b). Evidence is accumulating that all Bovidae other than Bovinae constitute a monophyletic clade (Hassanin and Douzery, 1999a; Kingdon, 1982; Vrba and Schaller, 2000). Within this section of Bovidae some conventional subfamilies are probably paraphyletic if not polyphyletic and until monophyletic clades are defined and downgraded into tribes, Aepycerotinae, Alcelaphinae, Antilopinae, Caprinae, Cephalophinae, Hippotraginae, and Reduncinae are retained here as subfamilies. The synonymy of the following names remains undecided: Ixalus Ogilby, 1836, Adenota mengesi Neumann, 1900, Antilope mazama C. H. Smith, 1821, Antilope koba Erxleben, 1777, Antilope temamazama C. H. Smith, 1821, Ixalus probaton Ogilby, 1836. Cervus guineensis Linnaeus, 1758 is possibly a bovid if correctly reported from Guinea (= West Africa). |
