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Damaliscus
A female topi (Damaliscus lunatus jimela)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Alcelaphinae
Genus:	Damaliscus P.L. Sclater & Thomas, 1894
Type species
Antilope pygargus Pallas, 1767
Species
Damaliscus lunatus Damaliscus pygargus †Damaliscus hypsodon †Damaliscus niro
Subspecies range map of the genus Damaliscus

The genus Damaliscus, commonly known as damalisks, is a genus of antelope in the family Bovidae, subfamily Alcelaphinae, found in Africa.

Species

Listed alphabetically.

Genus Damaliscus – P.L. Sclater & Thomas, 1894 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
topi, tiang or tsessebe	Damaliscus lunatus Burchell, 1824 Six subspecies D. l. jimela Matschie, 1892 – topi D. l. korrigum Ogilby, 1836 – korrigum D. l. lunatus – common tsessebe D. superstes (Cotterill, 2003) - Bangweulu tsessebe D. l. tiang (Heuglin, 1863) – tiang D. l. topi Blaine, 1914 – coastal topi	Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
bontebok	Damaliscus pygargus (Pallas, 1767) Two subspecies D. p. phillipsi Harper, 1939 – blesbok D. p. pygargus (Pallas, 1767) – bontebok	South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
	† Damaliscus hypsodon (Faith et al., 2012)	Known from the Middle-Late Pleistocene of East Africa; became extinct at the onset of the Holocene due to the loss of its grassland habitat	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EX
	† Damaliscus niro Hopwood, 1936	Known from throughout the Pleistocene of eastern and southern Africa; became extinct around 63,000 years ago.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EX

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. "Genus Damaliscus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
3. Kingdon, J (2015-04-23). The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp. 428–431. ISBN 9781472921352.
4. ^ East, Rod (1998). "African Antelope Database". IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
5. ^ Faith, J. Tyler; Potts, Richard; Plummer, Thomas W.; Bishop, Laura C.; Marean, Curtis W.; Tryon, Christian A. (November 2012). "New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 361–362: 84–93. Bibcode:2012PPP...361...84F. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.005.

• Stuart, Chris & Stuart, Tilde (2007). Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa. Fourth edition. Cape Town:Struik Publ.

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