Tragelaphus angasii Angas 1848

Tragelaphus angasii Angas 1848, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1848: 89.

Type Locality: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, "Hills that border upon the northern shores of St. Lucia Bay, in the Zulu country, lat. 28° south ".

Vernacular Names: Nyala.

Distribution: S Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa (N and E Limpopo Prov., E Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu-Natal), Swaziland (extinct, reintroduced), and N and S Zimbabwe. Reintroduced or newly introduced to private land in South Africa and Namibia (East, 1999).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: The name angasii is usually attributed to Gray, because Angas (1849) stated "Mr Gray has named this species after my father, George Fife Angas, Esq, of South Australia " but this is insufficient to make Gray the author (Article 50.1.1, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999).