Damaliscus

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Damaliscus

| image = Topi (Damaliscus lunatus jimela) female.jpg

| image_caption = A female topi (Damaliscus lunatus jimela)

| authority = P.L. Sclater & Thomas, 1894

| type_species = Antilope pygargus

| type_species_authority = Pallas, 1767

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *Damaliscus lunatus

| range_map = Damaliscus.png

| range_map_caption = Subspecies range map of the genus Damaliscus

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The genus Damaliscus, commonly known as damalisks, is a genus of antelope in the family Bovidae, subfamily Alcelaphinae, found in Africa.

Species

Listed alphabetically.{{MSW3|id=14200516}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?taxonomies=126566&searchType=species|title=Genus Damaliscus|website=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|access-date=2018-10-28}}

{{Species table |genus= Damaliscus |authority-name=P.L. Sclater & Thomas |authority-year=1894 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

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|name= topi, tiang or tsessebe{{cite book|last=Kingdon|first=J|title=The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals|publisher=Academic Press|location=San Diego, CA|pages=428–431|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjPCCAAAQBAJ&q=%22tsessebe%22|isbn=9781472921352|date=2015-04-23}}|binomial=Damaliscus lunatus

|image=File:Topi (Damaliscus lunatus jimela) male.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Burchell|authority-year=1824{{cite journal|last=East|first=Rod |title=African Antelope Database|journal=IUCN Species Survival Commission|year=1998|volume=21|pages=200–207}} |authority-not-original=

|range= Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa

|range-image=File:Damaliscus lunatus.png

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on

| D. l. jimela Matschie, 1892 – topi

| D. l. korrigum Ogilby, 1836 – korrigum

| D. l. lunatus – common tsessebe

| D. superstes (Cotterill, 2003) - Bangweulu tsessebe

| D. l. tiang (Heuglin, 1863) – tiang

| D. l. topi Blaine, 1914 – coastal topi

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|name= bontebok|binomial=Damaliscus pygargus

|image=File:Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus) (32669740552).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Pallas|authority-year=1767 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia

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| D. p. phillipsi Harper, 1939 – blesbok

| D. p. pygargus (Pallas, 1767) – bontebok

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|name= |binomial=† Damaliscus hypsodon

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|authority-name=Faith et al.|authority-year= 2012 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Known from the Middle-Late Pleistocene of East Africa; became extinct at the onset of the Holocene due to the loss of its grassland habitat{{Cite journal|last=Faith|first=J. Tyler|last2=Potts|first2=Richard|last3=Plummer|first3=Thomas W.|last4=Bishop|first4=Laura C.|last5=Marean|first5=Curtis W.|last6=Tryon|first6=Christian A.|date=November 2012|title=New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology|language=en|volume=361-362|pages=84–93|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.005|bibcode=2012PPP...361...84F}}

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|name= |binomial=† Damaliscus niro