Pelea capreolus

(J. R. Forster, 1790)

Rhebok

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Location:Swaziland, Manzini district, Mlilwane Game ReserveDate taken:21 July 2006Description:Also as Vaal Rhebok

Distribution :

Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 2135

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living

Found in the wild

Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Forster, J.R. 1790. Le Vaillant's Reisen in das Innere von Afrika, während der Jahre 1780 bis 1785. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt. Erster Band. Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin, 428 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb11248844?page=88%2C89

Original name as described

Antelope Capreolus

Other common names

Gray Ribbok · Vaal Rhebuck

Type material

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Type specimen URI

Type locality

Cape Colony.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Eswatini · Lesotho · South Africa

Subregion distribution

Distribution notes

Distribution references

Taxonomy notes

Taxonomy notes citation

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006250

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: 11 names and synonyms.

Antelope Capreolus

J. R. Forster, 1790

Family

Bovidae

Root name

capreolus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Original type locality

über den Bot-Fluß, und durch den Distrikt, welcher Ouve-Hoef genannt wird

Type locality

South Africa: Western Cape.

Type specimen URI

Authority page

Authority page URI

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb11248844?page=88%2C89

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Forster (1790:71, https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb11248844?page=88%2C89) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69282)

Antilope capreolus:

Thunberg, 1811

Family

Bovidae

Root name

capreolus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Type

Type kind

Original type locality

Type locality

Type specimen URI

Authority page

312

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11767806

Authority publication

Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg

Name usages

Thunberg (1811:312, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11767806) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64194)

Illiger (1815:78, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080934) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)

Schinz (1821:393, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51529154) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)

Desmarest (1822:461, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521905) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36189)

Lesson (1827:377, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207844) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)

Fischer (1829:467) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Smuts (1832:77, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088767) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60235)

Gervais (1840:262) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67281)

Antilope lanata

Desmoulins, 1822

Family

Bovidae

Root name

lanata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

Type kind

Original type locality

Cette espèce a été rapportée du cap de Bonne-Espérance, par Delalande ... Elle vit en petites troupes de dix à quinze paires dans les montagnes à l'est du Cap.