Ellipsen Waterbuck

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Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ellipsen Waterbuck) is a species of mammals in the family Bovidae. They are native to Ethiopia. They are herbivores. Individuals are known to live for 239.04 months. Reproduction is viviparous. They rely on running to move around.

• URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Viviparous
• Definition: 1) Producing live offspring from within the body of the parent (Lincoln et al., 1998). 2) Development of an embryo within the body of the parent, in part, resources passing directly from parent to embryo (Barnes et al., 2006).
• Attribution: <Lincoln, R., Boxshall, G. & Clark, P., 1998. A dictionary of ecology, evolution and systematics %282nd ed.%29. Cambridge: Cambridge University of Press. Barnes R.S.K., Calow P., Olive P.J.W., Golding, D.W, and Spicer, J.I. 2006. The invertebrates: a new synthesis, Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd.
  http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Viviparous>

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• URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000055
• Definition: The act of locomoting on limbs with body off the ground such that periodically none of the limbs are touching the ground.

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EOL has data for 67 attributes, including:

• fossorial and/or ground dwelling
• geographic range (size of area)
• home range
  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HomeRange
  • Definition: Size of the area within which everyday activities of individuals or groups (of any type) are typically restricted.
  • Attribution: <Kate E. Jones, Jon Bielby, Marcel Cardillo, Susanne A. Fritz, Justin O'Dell, C. David L. Orme, Kamran Safi, Wes Sechrest, Elizabeth H. Boakes, Chris Carbone, Christina Connolly, Michael J. Cutts, Janine K. Foster, Richard Grenyer, Michael Habib, Christopher A. Plaster, Samantha A. Price, Elizabeth A. Rigby, Janna Rist, Amber Teacher, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis. 2009. PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90:2648. http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/184/>
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Ellipsen Waterbuck includes 13 children:

• Kobus ellipsiprymnus adolfifriderici Matschie 1910
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus annectens Schwarz 1913
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus crawshayi (P. L. Sclater 1894)
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa (Rüppell 1835) (Defassa Waterbuck)
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby 1833)
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus harnieri (Murie 1867)
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus kondensis Matschie 1911
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus pallidus Matschie 1910
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus penricei (W. Rothschild 1895)
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus thikae Matschie 1910
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus tjaederi (Lönnberg 1907)
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus tschadensis Schwarz 1913
• Kobus ellipsiprymnus unctuosus (Laurillard 1842) see more