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Genus of mammals

Antidorcas
Temporal range: 5.3–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Pliocene–Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Tribe: Antilopini
Genus: Antidorcas
Sundevall, 1847
Type species
Antidorcas marsupialis
(Zimmermann, 1780)
Species

1 living, several extinct (see text)

Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species.

Modern Taxonomy

In 2013, Eva Verena Bärmann (of the University of Cambridge) and colleagues undertook a revision of the phylogeny of the tribe Antilopini on the basis of nuclear and mitochondrial data. They showed that the springbok and the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) form a clade with saiga (Saiga tatarica) as sister taxon. The study pointed out that the saiga and the springbok could be considerably different from the rest of the antilopines; a 2007 phylogenetic study even suggested that the two form a clade sister to the gerenuk. The cladogram below is based on the 2013 study.

Gazelle (Gazella)

Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)

Nanger

Eudorcas

Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)

Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)

Saiga (Saiga tatarica)

Species

References

  1. Hendey, Q.B. (1974). "THE LATE CENOZOIC CARNIVORA OF THE SOUTHWESTERN CAPE PROVINCE SOUTH AFRICA". Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. 63: 1–369.
  2. Faith, J. Tyler (2014). "Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa". Earth-Science Reviews. 128: 105–121. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.10.009.
  3. ^ Bärmann, E.V.; Rössner, G.E.; Wörheide, G. (2013). "A revised phylogeny of Antilopini (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) using combined mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 67 (2): 484–493. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.015. PMID 23485920. Open access icon
  4. Marcot, J.D. (2007). "Molecular phylogeny of terrestrial artiodactyls". In Prothero, D.R.; Foss, S.E. (eds.). The Evolution of Artiodactyls (Illustrated ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 4–18. ISBN 978-0-8018-8735-2.
Taxon identifiers
Antidorcas
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