Grazing antelope

Grazing antelope

Taxobox
name = Grazing antelopes


image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Hippotragus niger"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
subfamilia = Hippotraginae
subfamilia_authority = Brooke, 1876
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Hippotragus"
"Oryx"
"Addax"A grazing antelope is any of the species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae in the family Bovidae, which also includes sheep, goats, and cattle.

* FAMILY BOVIDAE
** Subfamily Bovinae: cattle and spiral-horned antelopes, 28 species in 10 genera
** Subfamily Cephalophinae: duikers, 19 species in 2 genera
** Subfamily Hippotraginae
*** Genus "Hippotragus"
**** Roan Antelope, "Hippotragus equinus"
**** Sable Antelope, "Hippotragus niger"
***** Giant Sable Antelope "Hippotragus niger varani"
**** Bluebuck, "Hippotragus leucophaeus" (extinct)
*** Genus "Oryx"
**** East African Oryx, "Oryx beisa"
**** Scimitar Oryx, "Oryx dammah"
**** Gemsbok, "Oryx gazella"
**** Arabian Oryx, "Oryx leucoryx"
*** Genus "Addax"
**** Addax, "Addax nasomaculatus"
** Subfamily Antilopinae: gazelles, dwarf antelopes and the Saiga, 38 species in 14 genera
** Subfamily Caprinae: sheep, goats, and allies
** Subfamily Reduncinae: waterbucks, reedbucks, 8 species in 2 genera
** Subfamily Aepycerotinae: impala, 1 species in 1 genus
** Subfamily Peleinae: rhebok, 1 species in 1 genus
** Subfamily Alcelaphinae: wildebeest, haartbeast, 7 species in 5 genera


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