Southern Grey Rhebok | |
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A male at the Bontebok National Park, Western Cape, South Africa, | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Reduncinae |
Genus: | Pelea Gray, 1851 |
Species: | P. capreolus
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Binomial name | |
Pelea capreolus (Forster, 1790)
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Grey rhebok, IUCN range, as of 2016 |
The grey rhebok (Pelea capreolus), locally known as the vaalribbok in Afrikaans, is a species of antelope native to South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini. The specific name capreolus is Latin for 'little goat'.