The

bovid The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, bison, buffalo, antelopes, and caprines. A member of this family is called a bovid. With 143 extant species and 300 known extinct species, t ...

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classifica ...

Reduncinae or

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...

Reduncini is composed of nine

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriat ...

antelope The term antelope is used to refer to many species of even-toed ruminant that are indigenous to various regions in Africa and Eurasia. Antelope comprise a wastebasket taxon defined as any of numerous Old World grazing and browsing hoofed mamm ...

, all of which dwell in

marsh A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found ...

es,

floodplain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...

s, or other well-watered areas, including the

waterbuck The waterbuck (''Kobus ellipsiprymnus'') is a large antelope found widely in sub-Saharan Africa. It is placed in the genus '' Kobus'' of the family Bovidae. It was first described by Irish naturalist William Ogilby in 1833. Its 13 subspecies a ...

s and reedbucks. These antelopes first appear in the fossil record 7.4 million years ago in

Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelag ...

and 6.6 Mya in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

Taxonomy

* Family

Bovidae The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, bison, buffalo, antelopes, and caprines. A member of this family is called a bovid. With 143 extant species and 300 known extinct species, t ...

** Subfamily Reduncinae *** Genus '' Kobus'' ****

Waterbuck The waterbuck (''Kobus ellipsiprymnus'') is a large antelope found widely in sub-Saharan Africa. It is placed in the genus '' Kobus'' of the family Bovidae. It was first described by Irish naturalist William Ogilby in 1833. Its 13 subspecies a ...

, ''Kobus ellipsiprymnus'' **** Kob, ''Kobus kob'' ****

Lechwe The lechwe, red lechwe, or southern lechwe (''Kobus leche'') is an antelope found in wetlands of south-central Africa. Range The lechwe is native to Botswana, Zambia, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeastern Namibia, and easte ...

, ''Kobus leche'' ****

Nile lechwe The Nile lechwe or Mrs Gray's lechwe (''Kobus megaceros'') is an endangered species of antelope found in swamps and grasslands in Sudan and Ethiopia. Description Males are an average of long and tall at the shoulders, and weigh between , w ...

, ''Kobus megaceros'' **** Puku, ''Kobus vardonii'' *** Genus '' Redunca'' **** Southern reedbuck, ''Redunca arundinum'' **** Mountain reedbuck, ''Redunca fulvorufula'' ****

Bohor reedbuck The bohor reedbuck (''Redunca redunca'') is an antelope native to central Africa. The animal is placed under the genus '' Redunca'' and in the family Bovidae. It was first described by German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas in 1767. T ...

, ''Redunca redunca'' *** Genus '' Pelea'' **** Grey rhebok, ''Pelea capreolus'' *** Genus †''

Menelikia ''Menelikia'' is a genus of extinct Artiodactyl mammals, belonging to the bovids The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, bison, buffalo, antelopes, and caprines. A member of this ...

'' ****''Menelikia leakeyi'' ****''Menelikia lyrocera'' *** Genus †'' Procobus'' ****''Procobus brauneri'' ****''Procobus melania'' *** Genus †''

Sivacobus ''Sivacobus'' is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene. ''Sivacobus'' was the only known member of the antelope subfamily Reduncinae to occur outside of Africa Africa is the world's secon ...

'' (Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent) ****''Sivacobus palaeindicus'' ****''Sivacobus patulicornis'' ****''Sivacobus sankaliai'' (Late Pleistocene) *** Genus †'' Thaleroceros'' ****''Thaleroceros radiciformis'' *** Genus †'' Zephyreduncinus'' ****''Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus''

Alternate classification

* ''

Adenota ''Adenota'' is an alternative genus or sub-genus within the Reduncinae sub-family of family Bovidae, composed of the species ''Kobus kob'' (Kob) and ''Kobus vardonii'' (Puku The puku (''Kobus vardonii'') is a medium-sized antelope found in wet ...

'' is an alternate genus or subgenus composed of the kob and puku.

References

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