Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby 1833)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 719

Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby 1833)

[Antilope] ellipsiprymnus Ogilby 1833 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833: 47.

Type Locality: "about twenty-five days' journey north of the Orange River between Latakoo and the western coast of Africa". Since restricted to Botswana, Gaborone, the top reaches of the Notwani River; see Smithers (1971:233) and Grubb (1999:25-26).

Vernacular Names: Waterbuck.

Subspecies: :

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

Distribution: Mesic non-forested habitats in Angola, Benin, N and EC Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, N and S Dem. Rep. Congo, N Eritrea, Ethiopia, S Gabon, Gambia (extinct), Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, S Mali, S Mauritania, Mozambique, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), S Niger , Nigeria, S Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, E South Africa, Swaziland, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd) as K. ellipsiprymnus and subspecifically as K. e. defassa and K. e. ellipsiprymnus .

Discussion: Reviewed by Ansell (1972:42); ellipsiprymnus division (includes also kondensis, pallidus and thikae) and defassa division (includes all other nominal subspecies) formerly regarded as species; they hybridize along a zone of contact (G. Peters, 1986) and differ in their centric fusion polymorphisms and structure of the Y chromosome ( Kingswood et al, 1998 b). Cotterill (2003 a) treated crawshayi as a species.