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Reduncinae

Subfamily of mammals

Summary

Subfamily of mammals

Redunca

Pelea

The bovid subfamily Reduncinae or tribe Reduncini is composed of nine species of antelope, all of which dwell in marshes, floodplains, or other well-watered areas, including the waterbucks and reedbucks. These antelopes first appear in the fossil record 7.4 million years ago in Eurasia and 6.6 Mya in Africa.

Taxonomy

  • Family Bovidae
    • Subfamily Reduncinae
      • Genus Kobus
        • Waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus
        • Kob, Kobus kob
        • Lechwe, Kobus leche
        • Nile lechwe, Kobus megaceros
        • Puku, Kobus vardonii
      • Genus Redunca
        • Southern reedbuck, Redunca arundinum
        • Mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula
        • Bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca
      • Genus Pelea
        • Grey rhebok, Pelea capreolus
      • Genus †Menelikia
        • Menelikia leakeyi
        • Menelikia lyrocera
      • Genus †Procobus
        • Procobus brauneri
        • Procobus melania
      • Genus †Sivacobus (Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent)
        • Sivacobus palaeindicus
        • Sivacobus patulicornis
        • Sivacobus sankaliai (Late Pleistocene)
      • Genus †Thaleroceros
        • Thaleroceros radiciformis
      • Genus †Zephyreduncinus
        • Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus

Alternate classification

  • Adenota is an alternate genus or subgenus composed of the kob and puku.

References

References

  1. Database, Mammal Diversity. (2021-11-06). "Mammal Diversity Database".
  2. "Subfamily Reduncinae - Rhebok, reedbucks, and waterbucks".
  3. (2015-07-04). "First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
  4. Ronald, H. Pine. (1993-02-19). "Nowak, R. M. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 5th ed., 1: i–xlviii + 1–642 + xlix–lxiii and 2: i–xiii + 643–1629 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3970-X. Price (hardbound)". Journal of Mammalogy.
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