Reduncinae (original) (raw)

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Subfamily of mammals

ReduncinaeTemporal range: Late Miocene to Present
Kob
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	ReduncinaeKnottnerus-Meyer, 1907
Genera
Kobus Redunca Pelea

The bovid subfamily Reduncinae or tribe Reduncini[1] is composed of nine species of antelope, all of which dwell in marshes, floodplains, or other well-watered areas, including the waterbucks and reedbucks.[2] These antelopes first appear in the fossil record 7.4 million years ago in Eurasia and 6.6 Mya in Africa.

• Family Bovidae
  • Subfamily Reduncinae
    * Genus Kobus
    * Waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus
    * Kob, Kobus kob
    * Lechwe, Kobus leche
    * Nile lechwe, Kobus megaceros
    * Puku, Kobus vardonii
    * Genus Redunca
    * Southern reedbuck, Redunca arundinum
    * Mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula
    * Bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca
    * Genus Pelea
    * Grey rhebok, Pelea capreolus
    * Genus †_Menelikia_
    * Menelikia leakeyi
    * Menelikia lyrocera
    * Genus †_Procobus_
    * Procobus brauneri
    * Procobus melania
    * Genus †_Sivacobus_ (Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent)[3]
    * Sivacobus palaeindicus
    * Sivacobus patulicornis
    * Sivacobus sankaliai (Late Pleistocene)
    * Genus †_Thaleroceros_
    * Thaleroceros radiciformis
    * Genus †_Zephyreduncinus_
    * Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus

Alternate classification

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• Adenota is an alternate genus or subgenus composed of the kob and puku.[4]

1. ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212, retrieved 2022-01-30
2. ^ "Subfamily Reduncinae - Rhebok, reedbucks, and waterbucks". www.ultimateungulate.com. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
3. ^ Vrba, Elisabeth S.; Bibi, Faysal; Costa, August G. (2015-07-04). "First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4) e943399. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E3399V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943399. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 83914701.
4. ^ Ronald, H. Pine (1993-02-19). "Nowak, R. M. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 5th ed., 1: i–xlviii + 1–642 + xlix–lxiii and 2: i–xiii + 643–1629 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3970-X. Price (hardbound)". Journal of Mammalogy. 74 (1): 236–238. doi:10.2307/1381927. ISSN 0022-2372. JSTOR 1381927.