Damaliscus pygargus (Pallas, 1767)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 394

Damaliscus pygargus (Pallas, 1767) . Spicil. Zool., 1:10.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Swart River .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly from SW Cape Prov. to E Transvaal ( South Africa); now only in captivity, or as reintroduced populations in Lesotho, Swaziland, and South Africa.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II and U.S. ESA - Endangered, as D. dorcas dorcas ; IUCN - Vulnerable as D. d. dorcas , otherwise Rare as D. dorcas .

SYNONYMS: albifrons, dorcas , grisea, maculata , personata, phillipsi , scripta .

COMMENTS: Includes phillipsi and albifrons; see Ansell (1972:55). Includes dorcas , pygargus being the valid name; see Rookmaaker (1991). The type locality of Damaliscus dorcas was restricted to South Africa, Cape Prov., Riversdale District, Kafferkiuls River by Harper (1940). But Bigalke (1948), in making an alternative restriction of the type locality to Swart River, used the name Damaliscus pygargus . Since this is now the valid name for the species, Bigalke's restriction must be accepted.