Boselaphini

Taxobox
name = Boselaphini

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Nilgai
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
subfamilia = Bovinae
subfamilia_authority = Gray, 1821
subdivision_ranks = Tribe
subdivision =
Boselaphini

The Boselaphini or four-horned antelope tribe are the last survivors of a form very similar to that of the ancestors of the entire subfamily. Both species have relatively primitive anatomical and behavioural characteristics and the females have no horns. They are native to the rapidly diminishing forests of India, and tend to avoid open plains. The Nilgai has been introduced into southern Texas where a population of a little under 15,000 animals provides some long-term insurance for its survival.

* Family Bovidae
** Subfamily Bovinae
*** Tribe Boselaphini
**** Genus "Tetracerus"
*****Four-horned Antelope, "Tetracerus quadricornis"
**** Genus "Boselaphus"
*****Nilgai or blue bull, "Boselaphus tragocamelus" (not to be confused with the extinct Bluebuck "Hippotragus leucophaeus", Hippotraginae)