Hippotragus equinus (Desmarest, 1804) . Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris, p. 24.

TYPE LOCALITY: N South Africa, Lataku (= Kuruman); see Harper (1940) .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to W Ethiopia; south to N South Africa, N Botswana and Namibia.

SYNONYMS: aethiopica, aurita, bakeri, barbata, cottoni, docoi, dogetti, gambianus, jubata, koba, langheldi, rufopallidus, scharicus, truteri.