Alcelaphus Blainville 1816 (hartebeest)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Synonym: Bubalis Goldfuss 1820

Parent taxon: Alcelaphini according to Z. T. Calamari 2021

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Carroll 1988, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2001, Vrba 1987 and Vrba 1997

Sister taxa: Alcelaphina, Awashia, Beatragus, Connochaetes, Damalborea, Damaliscina, Damaliscus, Maremmia, Numidocapra, Parmularius, Rusingoryx, Sigmoceros

Subtaxa: Alcelaphus buselaphus Alcelaphus cokii Alcelaphus kattwinkeli Alcelaphus lichtensteinii

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (5), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (42), Ethiopia (7), Israel (2), Kenya (21), Libya (3), Morocco (4), South Africa (32), Sudan (2), Swaziland (3), Tanzania (14), Zambia (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (2), Malawi (1), South Africa (1)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Malawi (2), South Africa (1)

Total: 148 collections including 151 occurrences

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