hippotragus

{{Short description|Genus of mammals}}

{{Italic title}}{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Hippotragus

| image = Roan Antelope, Kafue National Park, Zambia, Nov 2011.jpg

| image_caption = Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus

| taxon = Hippotragus

| authority = Sundevall, 1845{{cite journal |last1=Grubb |first1=Peter |title=Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): proposed conservation |journal=The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |date=2001 |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=126–132 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33817975}}

| subdivision = *H. equinus

• H. niger
• †Hippotragus cookei?
• †Hippotragus gigas
• †H. leucophaeus

| type_species=Antilope equina{{cite journal |author1=ICZN |title=Opinion 2030 (Case 3178). Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): conserved |journal=The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |date=2003 |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=90–91 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34357832}}

| type_species_authority=É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803

| subdivision_ranks = Species

}}

Hippotragus {{IPAc-en|h|ɪ|ˈ|p|ɒ|t|r|ə|ɡ|ə|s}} is a genus of antelopes which includes two living and one recently extinct species,{{MSW3|id=14200947|page=718}} as well as some fossil relatives. The name comes from Greek ἵππος (híppos), "horse", and τράγος (trágos), "he-goat".

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Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
120px	H. equinus	Roan antelope	West, Central, East and Southern Africa
120px	H. niger	Sable antelope	East Africa, south of Kenya, and Southern Africa
120px	H. leucophaeus	†Bluebuck or blue antelope	the southwestern Cape of South Africa

Fossil species

• †Hippotragus gigas{{cite web |title=Hippotragus gigas |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=374858 |website=Fossilworks |access-date=2021-12-17 |archive-date=2023-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306125745/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=374858 |url-status=live }}
• †Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium{{cite book |last1=Werdelin |first1=Lars |last2=Sanders |first2=William Joseph |title=Cenozoic Mammals of Africa |date=2010 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520257214 |page=773-774}}