Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby, 1833)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 413-414

Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby, 1833) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833:47.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, between Lataku (near Kuruman) and W coast of Africa, N of Orange River, on Molopo River .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania; S Gabon, S Congo Republic and S Zaire, south to Caprivi Strip ( Namibia), N and E Botswana and NE South Africa.

SYNONYMS: abyssinica; adolfifriderici Matschie, 1910; albertensis, angusticeps, annectens , avellanifrons, breviceps, canescens, cottoni , crawshayi, defassa, dianae, frommi, fulvifrons, griseotinctus, harnieri, hawashensi, kondensis, kulu, kuru, ladoensis, lipuwa, matschiei, muenzneri, nzoiae, pallidus , penricei , powelli, raineyi, schubotzi, senegalensis, singsing, thikae, tjaederi, togoensis, tschadensis, ugandae, unctuosus, uwendensis.

COMMENTS: Includes defassa; see Ansell (1972:42).