Tragelaphus oryx (Pallas, 1766)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 315-343 : 343

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scientific name	Tragelaphus oryx (Pallas, 1766)
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Tragelaphus oryx (Pallas, 1766) View in CoL . Misc. Zool., p. 9.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope .

DISTRIBUTION: Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and Nigeria to Sudan; Angola to S. Africa; thence north through Botswana, S. Zaire, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania to S.E. Sudan and S.W. Ethiopia; west to Senegal.

COMMENT: Includes derbianus ; see Van Gelder, 1977, Lammergeyer, 23:1-6. PG believes derbianus is a valid species. Formerly included in Taurotragus ; see Ansell, 1978:53; but also see Swanepoel et al., 1980:187.

PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as Taurotragus derbianus derbianus subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009006002001 as Taurotragus oryx .

5301419009006001001 as Taurotragus derbianus .

References

Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.

Swanepoel, P., R. H. N. Smithers, and I. L. Rautenbach. 1980. A checklist and numbering system of the extant mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 32: 155 - 196.