Aepyceros
Aepyceros | |
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Black-faced impala (Aepyceros melampus ssp. petersi)
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Aepycerotinae Gray, 1872 |
Tribe: | Aepycerotini Gray, 1872 |
Genus: | Aepyceros Sundevall, 1847 |
Type species | |
Antilope melampus Lichtenstein, 1812.
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Species | |
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Aepyceros is a genus of African antelope that contains a single living species, the impala. It is the only known member of the tribe Aepycerotini.[1]
Two extinct species are known, Aepyceros datoadeni[2] and Aepyceros shungurae.[3] A third species, Aepyceros premelampus has been transferred to a new genus, Afrotragus.[4]
References
- , retrieved 2022-01-30
- S2CID 86230742.
- ISBN 9780520257214.
- S2CID 90461071.