Aepyceros Explained

Aepyceros is a genus of African antelope that contains a single living species, the impala. It is the only known member of the tribe Aepycerotini.

Two extinct species are known, Aepyceros datoadeni[1] and Aepyceros shungurae.[2] A third species, Aepyceros premelampus has been transferred to a new genus, Afrotragus.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Geraads . Denis . Bobe . René . Reed . Kaye . Kaye Reed . 2012 . Pliocene Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation of Hadar and Ledi-Geraru, Lower Awash, Ethiopia . . 32 . 1 . 180–197 . 10.1080/02724634.2012.632046 . 86230742.
  2. Book: Werdelin . Lars . Sanders . William Joseph . Cenozoic Mammals of Africa . 2010 . University of California Press . 9780520257214 . 765.
  3. Denis Geraads . 2019 . A reassessment of the Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Nawata Formation of Lothagam, Kenya, and the late Miocene diversification of the family in Africa . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 17 . 2 . 169–182 . 10.1080/14772019.2017.1403493 . 90461071 .

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