Biology:Beatragus
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Short description: Genus of mammals
| Beatragus Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent
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| Hirola (Beatragus hunteri) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
| Genus: | Beatragus Heller, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Beatragus hunteri Sclater, 1889
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Beatragus is a genus of alcelaphine antelope. The hirola (Beatragus hunteri) is the only living representative, but a couple of extinct species are known, all from Africa.[2]
The hirola and the larger Beatragus antiquus may together represent different phases of a chronospecies; the living hirola probably declined in size as a result of an ecologically impoverished landscape.[3]
References
- ↑ "Beatragus". https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1092660/.
- ↑ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 782. ISBN 9780520257214.
- ↑ Kingdon, Jonathan (2014). Mammals of Africa: Volume VI Hippopotamuses, Pigs, Deer, Giraffe and Bovids. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 490. ISBN 9781408189955.
Wikidata ☰ Q19817354 entry
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