Taurotragus derbianus (Gray 1847)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 696

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scientific name	Taurotragus derbianus (Gray 1847)
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Treatment

[Boselaphus] derbianus Gray 1847 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 20: 286.

Type Locality: "Western Africa, Gambia ".

Vernacular Names: Derby Eland.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Taurotragus derbianus subsp. derbianus Gray 1847

Subspecies Taurotragus derbianus subsp. gigas Heuglin 1863

Distribution: Savanna of W Africa in Gambia (extinct), Guinea (extinct?), Guinea Bissau, SW Mali (extinct?), S Senegal, and Sierra Leone (formerly a vagrant); purported records from Ghana and Togo not accepted ( Grubb et al., 1998). C Africa in N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad (extinct), N Dem. Rep. Congo, E Nigeria (extinct), SW Sudan, and NW Uganda (extinct).

Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered as T. d. derbianus ; IUCN – Endangered as Tragelaphus d. derbianus (but also listed, from the same evaluation date, as Lower Risk (nt) for Taurotragus derbianus ), Lower Risk (nt) as Tragelaphus d. gigas.

Discussion: Regarded as conspecific with T. oryx by Haltenorth (1963:86), but usually treated as a full species; see Ansell (1972:26), whose synonymy is followed here. "Giant eland" refers only to the subspecies gigas.