Hippotragus Sundevall 1845

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 Sundevall 1845

Hippotragus Sundevall 1845 , Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, Vol. 1845, parts 2 and 3: 31.

Type Species: Antilope equina É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803

Species and subspecies: 3 species with 10 subspecies:

Species Hippotragus equinus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803)

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

Species Hippotragus leucophaeus (Pallas 1766)

Species Hippotragus niger (Harris 1838)

Subspecies Hippotragus niger subsp. niger Harris 1838

Subspecies Hippotragus niger subsp. anselli Groves 1983

Subspecies Hippotragus niger subsp. roosevelti Heller 1910

Subspecies Hippotragus niger subsp. variani Thomas 1916

Discussion: Hippotragus is usually quoted from Sundevall, 1846, K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, for 1844, p. 196. The earlier name, cited above, was declared to be unavailable, and while it remained unavailable, Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (in Retzius and Lovén, Archiv. Skand. Beitr. Naturgesch., Griefswald, 1:445) was the available name. Grubb (2001 c) applied to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to conserve Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 , and this action has now been taken ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2003 c). Sister species in the genus are said to be leucophaeus and niger ( Groves and Westwood, 1995) , equinus and niger ( Robinson et al., 1996) , or equinus and leucophaeus ( Vrba and Gatesy, 1994) .