Aepyceros is a genus of African antelope that contains a single living species, the impala. It is the only known member of the tribe Aepycerotini.[1]
| Aepyceros | |
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| Black-faced impala (Aepyceros melampus ssp. petersi) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Aepycerotinae Gray, 1872 |
| Tribe: | Aepycerotini Gray, 1872 |
| Genus: | Aepyceros Sundevall, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Antilope melampus Lichtenstein, 1812.
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| Species | |
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Aepyceros melampus - Impala | |
Two extinct species are known, Aepyceros datoadeni[2] and Aepyceros shungurae.[3] A third species, Aepyceros premelampus has been transferred to a new genus, Afrotragus.[4]
References
edit- ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212, retrieved 2022-01-30
- ^ Geraads, Denis; Bobe, René; Reed, Kaye (2012). "Pliocene Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation of Hadar and Ledi-Geraru, Lower Awash, Ethiopia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (1): 180–197. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.632046. S2CID 86230742.
- ^ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 765. ISBN 9780520257214.
- ^ Denis Geraads (2019). "A reassessment of the Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Nawata Formation of Lothagam, Kenya, and the late Miocene diversification of the family in Africa". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (2): 169–182. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1403493. S2CID 90461071.