Hippotragus
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Name (Latin)
Hippotragus
See Also From tracing topical name
Antelopes
Bovidae
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q516624
Library of congress:
sh2004007085
Sources of Information
- ITIS search, June 14, 2004(Hippotragus Sundevall, 1846, genus in family Bovidae)
- Walker's mammals of the world, 1999:p. 1174 (Genus Hippotragus)
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Roan Antelope, Kafue National Park, Zambia, Nov 2011
Badboybenny, CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikipedia description:
Hippotragus is a genus of antelopes which includes two living and one recently extinct species, as well as some fossil relatives. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), meaning "horse", and τράγος (trágos), meaning "he-goat", and thus, "horse goat". Fossil species †Hippotragus gigas †Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium
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