Raphicerus campestris (Thunberg 1811)

[Antilope] campestris Thunberg 1811, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 3: 313.

Type Locality: No locality cited; South Africa by implication; since restricted to Cape Colony (Lydekker, 1914 a:148) or Cape of Good Hope (G. M. Allen, 1939:502); since selected as Western Cape Prov., Malmesbury Div., Swartland (Grubb, 1999:23) .

Vernacular Names: Steenbok.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Raphicerus campestris subsp. campestris Thunberg 1811

Subspecies Raphicerus campestris subsp. capricornis Thomas and Schwann 1906

Subspecies Raphicerus campestris subsp. kelleni Jentink 1900

Subspecies Raphicerus campestris subsp. neumanni Matschie 1894

Distribution: E Africa in S Kenya and N and C Tanzania; S Africa in S Angola, Botswana, S Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, W Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Synonymy modified from Ansell (1972:67).