Damaliscus lunatus (Burchell, 1823) . Travels in Interior of Southern Africa, 2:334 [1824].
TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Matlhawareng River, NE of Kuruman .
DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Mauritania and Senegal east to W Ethiopia and S Somalia, and south to Tanzania; also Zambia to South Africa. Now extinct in Mauritana, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Mozambique and most of South African Range; survives in Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, N Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, W Ethiopia, S Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, E and S Zaire, NE Namibia, N Botswana, E Angola, W and C Zambia, Zimbabwe and Transvaal (South Africa) .
STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN - Vulnerable as D. I. korrigum .
SYNONYMS: eurus, floweri, jimela, jonesi, korrigum, lyra, phalius, purpurescens, reclinis, selousi, senegalensis, tiang, topi, ugandae.
COMMENTS: Includes korrigum; see Ansell (1972:56). For date of publication, see Ellerman et al. (1953:201).