Sitatunga

Sitatunga
A male at the Oji Zoo, Kobe, Japan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Tragelaphus
Species:
T. spekii
Binomial name
Tragelaphus spekii
Speke, 1863
The range map of sitatunga
Synonyms[2]
  • T. albonotatus (Neumann, 1905)
  • T. baumii (Sokolowsky, 1903)
  • T. inornatus (Cabrera, 1918)
  • T. larkenii (St Leger, 1931)
  • T. speckei (Neumann, 1900)
  • T. typicus (R. Ward, 1910)
  • T. ugallae (Matschie, 1913)
  • T. wilhelmi (Lönnberg and Gyldenstolpe, 1924)

The sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) or marshbuck[3] is a swamp-dwelling medium-sized antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The sitatunga is mostly confined to swampy and marshy habitats. Here they occur in tall and dense vegetation as well as seasonal swamps, marshy clearings in forests, riparian thickets and mangrove swamps.

Sitatungas in Chester Zoo, England.
  1. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2016). "Tragelaphus spekii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T22050A115164901. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22050A115164901.en.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference MSW3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Marshbuck" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 773.