Beatragus hunteri (P. L. Sclater 1889)

[Cobus] hunteri P. L. Sclater 1889, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889: 58.

Type Locality: Kenya, "Africam orientalem, in ripis fl. Tana " (E bank of Tana River).

Vernacular Names: Hunter's Hartebeest.

Distribution: N Kenya, S Somalia. Introduced into Tsavo National Park, Kenya.

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered as Damaliscus hunteri .

Discussion: Included in Damaliscus lunatus by Haltenorth (1963:100). Formerly in Beatragus; see Ansell (1972:54); retained in Beatragus by Gentry and Gentry (1978) and Gentry (1990). Differs from Damaliscus (and Alcelaphus) in independent fusions of formerly acrocentric chromosomes (Kumamoto et al., 1996).