Antilopinae

The Antilopines are even-toed ungulates belong to the family Bovidae. The members of Antilopini (gazelles, blackbucks, springboks, gerenuks, dibatags, and Central Asian gazelles) are often referred to as true antelopes, and are usually classified as the only living representatives of the Antilopinae. True antelopes occur in much of Africa and Asia, with the highest concentration of species occurring in East Africa in Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania. The saigas and Tibetan antelopes are related to true antelopes (Antilopinae) and sheep and goats (Caprinae), but are often placed in their own subfamily, Saiginae. These animals inhabit much of central and western Asia. The dwarf antelopes are sometimes placed in a separate subfamily, Neotraginae, and live entirely in sub-Saharan Africa. The Antilopinae are a subfamily of Bovidae that roam the East African savannas and deserts and they have acclimated to possess wider insertion muscles to enable them to avoid predators in the open savanna.

Antilopinae
Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Gray, 1821
Genera

See text.

Classification

Family Bovidae

Fossil genera[1]

  • †Demecquenemia
  • †Deprezia
  • †Dytikodorcas
  • †Hispanodorcas
  • †Homoiodorcas
  • †Majoreas
  • †Nisidorcas
  • †Ouzocerus
  • †Parantidorcas
  • †Parastrepsiceros[2]
  • †Praemadoqua[3]
  • †Prostrepsiceros
  • †Sinapodorcas
  • †Tyrrhenotragus

References
  1. "Antilopini". Biolib.
  2. Kostopoulos, D. (1998). "Parastrepsiceros koufosi n. sp. (Mammalia: Bovidae); note on the possible presence of a Prostrepsiceros descendant in the latest Pliocene of northern Greece". Biology Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia.
  3. "Praemadoqua". Fossilworks.


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