Grant's gazelle

Grant's gazelle
A male at the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Tribe: Antilopini
Genus: Nanger
Species:
N. granti
Binomial name
Nanger granti
(Brooke, 1872)[2]
The distribution of Grant's gazelles
Synonyms

Gazella granti

Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti) is a relatively large species of gazelle antelope, distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria.[3] Its Swahili name is swala granti.[4] It was named for a 19th-century British explorer, James Grant.[5]

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2016). "Nanger granti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T8971A50186774. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T8971A50186774.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. ^ Arctander, Peter; Kat, Pieter W; Aman, Rashid A; Siegismund, Hans R (May 1996). "Extreme genetic differences among populations of Gazella granti, Grant's gazelle, in Kenya". Heredity. 76 (5): 465–475. doi:10.1038/hdy.1996.69. ISSN 0018-067X. PMID 8666544.
  4. ^ "Grant's Gazelle". Out of Africa. Archived from the original on 6 February 2006.
  5. ^ Sir Victor Brooke (1872). "On a supposed new Species of Gazelle from Eastern Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society: 601–602. Retrieved 20 May 2015.