Alcelaphus buselaphus (Pallas, 1766)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 393

Alcelaphus buselaphus (Pallas, 1766) . Mise. Zool., p. 7.

TYPE LOCALITY: Morocco .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to E Zaire, Uganda, Kenya and N Tanzania; S Angola, W Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa . Formerly N Morocco, N Algeria, and, up to Dynastic times, east to Egypt. Extinct in N Africa, Somalia, and much of its former South African range.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as A. b. swaynei and A. b. torà.

SYNONYMS: bubalis , bubastis, caama , cokii , deckeni, digglei, evalensis, heuglini, insignis, invadens, jacksoni, keniae, kongoni, lelwel, luzarchei, major , matschiei, mauretanicus, modestus, nakurae, neumanni, niediecki, noacki, obscurus , oscari, rahatensis, ritchiei, roosevelti, rothschildi , sabakiensis, schillingsi , schulzi, selbornei, senegalensis, swaynei, tanae, torà, tschadensis, tunisianus, wembaerensis.

COMMENTS: Includes caama ; see Ellerman et al. (1953:202).