Beatragus hunteri (P. L. Sclater 1889)

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 : 675

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scientific name	Beatragus hunteri (P. L. Sclater 1889)
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[Cobus] hunteri P. L. Sclater 1889 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889: 58.

Type Locality: Kenya, "Africam orientalem, in ripis fl. Tana " (E bank of Tana River).

Vernacular Names: Hunter's Hartebeest.

Distribution: N Kenya, S Somalia. Introduced into Tsavo National Park, Kenya.

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered as Damaliscus hunteri .

Discussion: Included in Damaliscus lunatus by Haltenorth (1963:100). Formerly in Beatragus ; see Ansell (1972:54); retained in Beatragus by Gentry and Gentry (1978) and Gentry (1990). Differs from Damaliscus (and Alcelaphus ) in independent fusions of formerly acrocentric chromosomes ( Kumamoto et al., 1996).