| Comments: | Includes Adenota and Onotragus; see Ansell (1972:40). Species groups are K. kob or Adenota group (includes also K. vardonii, forming a superspecies), K. leche or Hydrotragus group (includes also K. megaceros), and K. ellipsiprymnus or nominate Kobus group (Ansell, 1972). The most parsimonious tree based on morphological characters is (K. vardonii) ((K. kob) ((K. leche, K. megaceros) (K. ellipsprymnus))) with kob group paraphyletic (Vrba et al., 1994). Phylogeny inferred from mtDNA is (K. leche, K. megaceros) ((K. kob, K. vardonii) (K. ellipsprymnus)) (Birungi and Arctander, 2001), with species groups monophyletic. |
