Hippotragus equinus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803)

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 : 717

Hippotragus equinus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803)

[Antilope] equina E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803 , Cat. Mamm. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 259.

Type Locality: "Inconnue"; now thought to be South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Plettenberg Bay ( Grubb, 1999).

Vernacular Names: Roan Antelope.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. equinus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. bakeri Heuglin 1863

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. cottoni Dollman and Burlace 1928

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. koba Gray 1872

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. langheldi Matschie 1898

Subspecies Hippotragus equinus subsp. scharicus Schwarz 1913

Distribution: Savanna woodland in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi (extinct), N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, N and S Dem. Rep. Congo, N Eritrea (extinct?), W Ethiopia, Gambia (extinct), Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, S Mali, S Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, S Niger , Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, E South Africa, Swaziland (extinct, reintroduced), Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. No evidence of occurrence in Sierra Leone ( Grubb et al., 1998).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: For dating the name to É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803 see Grubb (2001 a) and Opinion 2005 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2002 b). The type locality was selected as South Africa, Northern Cape, Lataku (= Kuruman) by Harper (1940), but there is evidence to show that the holotype was collected much farther south where the species no longer occurs, at Plettenberg Bay ( Grubb, 1999). Subspecific systematics follows Ansell (1972:46).