Nanger Lataste 1885

Nanger Lataste 1885, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 39: 183.

Type Species: Antilope mhorr Bennett 1833

Species and subspecies: 3 species with 11 subspecies:

Species Nanger dama (Pallas 1766)

Subspecies Nanger dama subsp. dama Pallas 1766

Subspecies Nanger dama subsp. mhorr Bennett 1833

Subspecies Nanger dama subsp. ruficollis C. H. Smith 1827

Species Nanger granti (Brooke 1872)

Subspecies Nanger granti subsp. granti Brooke 1872

Subspecies Nanger granti subsp. brighti Thomas 1901

Subspecies Nanger granti subsp. notata Thomas 1897

Subspecies Nanger granti subsp. petersii Günther 1884

Subspecies Nanger granti subsp. robertsi Thomas 1903

Species Nanger soemmerringii (Cretzschmar 1828)

Subspecies Nanger soemmerringii subsp. soemmerringii Cretzschmar 1828

Subspecies Nanger soemmerringii subsp. berberana Matschie 1893

Subspecies Nanger soemmerringii subsp. butteri Thomas 1904

Discussion: Status as a full genus restored by Groves (2000 b). May be sister taxon of Eudorcas, as shares translocation of autosome to Y chromosome; Nanger species share 9 unique centric fusions (Vassart et al., 1995) and are genetically distinct (Rebholz and Harley, 1999).