Antidorcas Explained

Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species.^{[1] [2]}

Modern Taxonomy

In 2013, Eva Verena Bärmann (of the University of Cambridge) and colleagues undertook a revision of the phylogeny of the tribe Antilopini on the basis of nuclear and mitochondrial data. They showed that the springbok and the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) form a clade with saiga (Saiga tatarica) as sister taxon.^[3] The study pointed out that the saiga and the springbok could be considerably different from the rest of the antilopines; a 2007 phylogenetic study even suggested that the two form a clade sister to the gerenuk.^[4] The cladogram below is based on the 2013 study.^[3]

Species

• Antidorcas marsupialis - Springbok
• †Antidorcas australis
• †Antidorcas bondi
• †Antidorcas recki

Notes and References

1. Hendey . Q.B. . THE LATE CENOZOIC CARNIVORA OF THE SOUTHWESTERN CAPE PROVINCE SOUTH AFRICA . Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . 1974 . 63 . 1–369.
2. Faith . J. Tyler . Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa . Earth-Science Reviews . 2014 . 128 . 105–121 . 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.10.009 .
3. Bärmann. E.V.. Rössner. G.E.. Wörheide. G.. A revised phylogeny of Antilopini (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) using combined mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2013. 67. 2. 484–493. 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.015. 23485920.
4. Book: Marcot. J.D.. Prothero. D.R.. Donald Prothero. Foss. S.E.. The Evolution of Artiodactyls. 2007. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. 978-0-8018-8735-2. 4–18. Illustrated. Molecular phylogeny of terrestrial artiodactyls.