Antidorcas

Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species.[1][2]

Antidorcas
Temporal range: 5.3–0 Ma Pliocene–Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Bovidae
Subfamily:Antilopinae
Tribe:Antilopini
Genus:Antidorcas
Sundevall, 1847
Type species
Antidorcas marsupialis
(Zimmermann, 1780)
Species

1 living, several extinct (see text)

Modern Taxonomy

In 2013, Eva Verena Bärmann (of the University of Cambridge) and colleagues undertook a revision of the phylogeny of the tribe Antilopini on the basis of nuclear and mitochondrial data. They showed that the springbok and the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) form a clade with saiga (Saiga tatarica) as sister taxon.[3] The study pointed out that the saiga and the springbok could be considerably different from the rest of the antilopines; a 2007 phylogenetic study even suggested that the two form a clade sister to the gerenuk.[4] The cladogram below is based on the 2013 study.[3]

Gazella

Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)

Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)

Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)

Saiga (Saiga tatarica)

Species

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