Damaliscus lunatus

Topi
Tsessebe in Botswana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Damaliscus
Species:
D. lunatus
Binomial name
Damaliscus lunatus
(Burchell, 1824)
Damaliscus lunatus

Damaliscus lunatus is a large African antelope of the genus Damaliscus and subfamily Alcelaphinae in the family Bovidae, with a number of recognised geographic subspecies.[2] Some authorities have split the different populations of the species into different species,[3][4] although this is seen as controversial.[5][6][7] Common names include topi,[1][8][9] sassaby (formerly also sassayby),[10] tiang and tsessebe.[9]

  1. ^ a b IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (7 January 2016). "Topi (Damaliscus lunatus)". IUCN Red List. IUCN. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  2. ^ East, Rod; IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group (1998). "African Antelope Database" (PDF). Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  3. ^ Damaliscus lunatus, MSW3
  4. ^ Cotterill, Fenton Peter David (January 2003). "Insights into the taxonomy of tsessebe antelopes, Damaliscus lunatus (Bovidae: Alcelaphini) in south-central Africa: with the description of a new evolutionary species". Durban Museum Novitates. 28: 11–30. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  5. ^ "About the Mammal Diversity Database". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  6. ^ Holbrook, Luke Thomas (June 2013). "Taxonomy Interrupted". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 20 (2): 153–154. doi:10.1007/s10914-012-9206-1. S2CID 17640424. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  7. ^ Gutiérrez, Eliécer E.; Garbino, Guilherme Siniciato Terra (March 2018). "Species delimitation based on diagnosis and monophyly, and its importance for advancing mammalian taxonomy". Zoological Research. 39 (3): 301–308. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.037. PMC 6102684. PMID 29551763. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  8. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (30 June 2008). "Topi (Damaliscus lunatus)". IUCN Red List. IUCN. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
  9. ^ a b Kingdon, Jonathan (23 April 2015). The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp. 428–431. ISBN 9781472921352.
  10. ^ Sclater, Philip Lutley; Thomas, Oldfield; Wolf, Joseph (January 1895). The Book of Antelopes. Vol. 1. London: R.H. Porter. p. 86. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.65969. OCLC 1236807.