Beatragus

Beatragus Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent
Hirola (Beatragus hunteri)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Alcelaphinae
Genus:	Beatragus Heller, 1912
Type species
Beatragus hunteri Sclater , 1889
Species[1]
Beatragus hunteri - hirola †Beatragus antiquus †Beatragus vrbae †Beatragus whitei

Beatragus is a genus of alcelaphine antelope. The hirola (Beatragus hunteri) is the only living representative, but a couple of extinct species are known, all from Africa.^[2]

The hirola and the larger Beatragus antiquus may together represent different phases of a chronospecies; the living hirola probably declined in size as a result of an ecologically impoverished landscape.^[3]

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