Bangweulu Tsessebe

Bangweulu Tsessebe
Bangweulu Tsessebe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Damaliscus
Species: D. superstes
Binomial name
Damaliscus superstes
Cotterill, 2003[1]

The Bangweulu Tsessebe (Damaliscus superstes) is an antelope found in northeastern Zambia.[2] Naturalist F. Cotterill recognized the tsessebes in northeastern Zambia in the southern Bangweulu Flats as a new species based on differences in pelage and cranial morphology.[3]

References

  1. ^ Biolib.cz
  2. ^ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200525. 
  3. ^ IUCN Redlist.org (retrieved March 20, 2010.)
  • Macdonald, D.W. (2006) Encyclopedia of Mammals. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [as Damaliscus superstes Cotterill, 2003] Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005)