Kobus A. Smith 1840

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Kobus A. Smith 1840

Kobus A. Smith 1840 , Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm., Part 12: pl. 28 plus text.

Type Species: Antilope ellipsiprymnus Ogilby 1833

Species and subspecies: 5 species with 27 subspecies:

Species Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby 1833)

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. ellipsiprymnus Ogilby 1833

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. adolfifriderici Matschie 1910

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. annectens Schwarz 1913

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. crawshayi P. L. Sclater 1894

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. defassa Rüppell 1835

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. harnieri Murie 1867

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. kondensis Matschie 1911

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. pallidus Matschie 1910

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. penricei W. Rothschild 1895

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. thikae Matschie 1910

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. tjaederi Lönnberg 1907

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. tschadensis Schwarz 1913

Subspecies Kobus ellipsiprymnus subsp. unctuosus Laurillard 1842

Species Kobus kob ( Erxleben 1777)

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. kob Erxleben 1777

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. adolfi Lydekker and Blaine 1914

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. bahrkeetae Schwarz 1913

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. leucotis Lichtenstein and Peters 1853

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. pousarguesi Neumann 1905

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. riparia Schwarz 1914

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. thomasi P. L. Sclater 1896

Subspecies Kobus kob subsp. ubangiensis Schwarz 1913

Species Kobus leche Gray 1850

Subspecies Kobus leche subsp. leche Gray 1850

Subspecies Kobus leche subsp. kafuensis Haltenorth 1963

Subspecies Kobus leche subsp. robertsi W. Rothschild 1907

Subspecies Kobus leche subsp. smithemani Lydekker 1900

Species Kobus megaceros Fitzinger 1855

Species Kobus vardonii Livingstone 1857

Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. vardonii Livingstone 1857

Subspecies Kobus vardonii subsp. senganus P. L. Sclater and Thomas 1897

Discussion: Includes Adenota and Onotragus ; see Ansell (1972:40). Species groups are K. kob or Adenota group (includes also K. vardonii , forming a superspecies), K. leche or Hydrotragus group (includes also K. megaceros ), and K. ellipsiprymnus or nominate Kobus group ( Ansell, 1972). The most parsimonious tree based on morphological characters is ( K. vardonii ) (( K. kob ) (( K. leche , K. megaceros ) ( K. ellipsprymnus ))) with kob group paraphyletic (Vrba et al., 1994). Phylogeny inferred from mtDNA is ( K. leche , K. megaceros ) (( K. kob , K. vardonii ) ( K. ellipsprymnus )) ( Birungi and Arctander, 2001), with species groups monophyletic.