Hippotragus niger (Harris, 1838) . Athenaeum, 535:71.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Transvaal, Cashan Range (= Magaliesberge), near Pretoria .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Kenya to N South Africa, west to N Botswana; Angola, between Cuanza and Loando Rs.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I, and U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered, as H. n. variani.

SYNONYMS: anselli, harrisi, kaufmanni, kirkii, roosevelti, variarli.

COMMENTS: Includes variarti; see Ansell (1972:47). Original publication usually assumed to be Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838:2 (pubi. July, 1838), but McAllan and Bruce (1989) have shown that an earlier publication is The Athenaeum (pubi. 27 Jan., 1838).