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SPECIES Antidorcas marsupialis

Author:Zimmermann, 1780.
Citation:Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 427.
Common Name:Springbok
Type Locality:South Africa, "die Lander am Cap der guten Hoffnung", since restricted to " Cape Colony [Cape Prov.]" (Lydekker, 1914b:111).
Distribution:SW Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa (range here now much reduced).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).
Comments:Revised by Groves (1981b). Assigned to a separate tribe, Antidorcini by Kingdon (1997), correctly Antidorcadini.
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SUBSPECIES marsupialis

SUBSPECIES angolensis

SUBSPECIES hofmeyri

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