Hippotragus equinus

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Roan Antelope

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Location:South Africa, Limpopo or Mpumalanga, Kruger National ParkDate taken:Jan 1, 1967

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 163

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Pecora
Superfamily : Bovoidea
Family : Bovidae
Subfamily : Antilopinae
Tribe : Hippotragini
Genus : Hippotragus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1803. Catalogue des Mammifères du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Privately published, Paris, 272 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/details/bsb10482289

Original name as described

Antilope equina

Other common names

Bastergemsbok · Gwanki · Korongo · Kwalataseta

Type material

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Inconnue. Restricted by Grubb in 1999 to "South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Plettenberg Bay".

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Mali · Burkina Faso · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Nigeria · Niger? · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Sudan · South Sudan · Ethiopia · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Uganda · Kenya · Rwanda · Angola · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · Botswana · Namibia · South Africa

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006234

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 37 names and synonyms.

Antilope equina

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

equinus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

259

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:259) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
  2. Cuvier (1816:263, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1844773) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39676)
  3. Muirhead (1819:460) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)
  4. Schinz (1821:394, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51529155) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  5. Desmarest (1822:476, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521920) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36189)
  6. Lesson (1827:387, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207854) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  7. Fischer (1829:480) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  8. Smuts (1832:69, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088759) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60235)
  9. Blyth (1840:140, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49918354) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67419)
  10. Laurillard (1841:618, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57482956) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60622)
  11. Lesson (1842:180) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  12. Sundevall (1845:31, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15957412) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/40490)
  13. Gervais & Serres (1847:801, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2814617) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68916)

Capra aethiopica

(H. R. Schinz, 1821)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

aethiopicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

403

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51529164

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

  1. Schinz (1821:403, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51529164) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  2. Blyth (1840:142, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49918356) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67419)
  3. Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Capra jubata

(Goldfuss, 1824)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

jubatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

pl. 287C

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31078168

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Name usages

Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Antilope barbata

(C. H. Smith, 1826)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

barbatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

180

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264267

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Smuts (1832:70, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088760) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60235)
  2. Gervais (1840:265) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67281)
  3. Lesson (1842:180) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  4. Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Antilope aurita

(C. H. Smith in J. E. Gray, 1827)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

aurita

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

notusedas_valid

Authority page

325

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34790519

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Antilope Truteri

(J. B. Fischer, 1829)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

truteri

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Authority page

478

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1829:478) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  2. Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Antelope equina

(Anonymous, 1833)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

equinus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

233

Authority page URI

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015033904866?urlappend=%3Bseq=245%3Bownerid=13510798883762789-251

Authority publication

The Literary Gazette

Name usages

Anonymous (1833:233, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015033904866?urlappend=%3Bseq=245%3Bownerid=13510798883762789-251) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69401)

Aigoceros equina

(A. Smith, 1840)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

equinus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

pl. 27

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51577805

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Smith (1840:pl. 27, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51577805) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67647)

Hippotragus equinus

Sundevall, 1846

Family

Bovidae

Root name

equinus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

197

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47392293

Authority publication

Kongl. Vetenskaps-Academiens Handlingar

Name usages

  1. Sundevall (1846:197, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47392293) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/40481)
  2. Trouessart (1905:728, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423609) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59290)
  3. Lydekker (1908:295, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18741515) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39820)
  4. Ward (1910:286, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15015929) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39628)
  5. Pocock (1911:910, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31561422) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67432)
  6. Roberts (1913:106, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439564) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17656)
  7. Lydekker & Blaine (1914:134, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9386886) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39877)
  8. Allen (1939:533, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782430) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)
  9. Hill & Carter (1941:160) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16955)
  10. Bouet (1942:224) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67365)
  11. Setzer (1956:576, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7489182) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5501)
  12. Corbet & Hill (1980:123) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  13. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:335) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  14. Afolayan & Amubode (1985:260, 261) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67254)
  15. Corbet & Hill (1991:132) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  16. Grubb (1993:412) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69016)
  17. Yalden, Largen, Kock & Hillman (1996:111) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36072)
  18. Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)
  19. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:622) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  20. Wilson & Mittermeier (2011:641) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67176)
  21. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #10167) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  22. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #10167) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  23. Faith, Rowan, O'Brien, Blegen & Peppe (2020:12) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/50713)
  24. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006234) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  25. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10167/50188287) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Aigocerus Equinus

(J. E. Gray, 1850)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

equinus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

16

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47595048

Authority publication

Knowsley

Name usages

  1. Gray (1850:16, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47595048) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39734)
  2. Gray (1851:132, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59278652) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69321)
  3. Rochebrune (1883:173, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26187626) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/43667)

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