Bubal hartebeest

Bubal hartebeest
A female bubal hartebeest that lived in London Zoo from 4 October 1883 until 27 April 1897. Photographed by Lewis Medland in 1895.

Extinct (1925)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Alcelaphus
Species:
A. buselaphus
Subspecies:
†A. b. buselaphus
Trinomial name
†Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus
(Pallas, 1766)
A. b. buselaphus ranged north of the Sahara, from Morocco to Egypt

The bubal hartebeest, also known as northern hartebeest or bubal antelope or simply bubal (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) is the extinct nominal (i.e., first described) subspecies of hartebeest. It was formerly found north of the Saharan Desert. Other subspecies live currently in grasslands south of the Sahara, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east and down to central Tanzania. The red hartebeest and Lichtenstein's hartebeest, alternatively considered subspecies or sister species of the common hartebeest, are present in southern Africa.[2][3]

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2017). "Alcelaphus buselaphus ssp. buselaphus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T813A50181474. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T813A50181474.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Red Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus caama) | Wildliferanching.com". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
  3. ^ Kingdon, Jonathan (1997) The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals Princeton University Press