Life Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae

• Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby, 1833) Senegal - Somalia - N.South Africa - Angola. See [maps] Waterbuck

  • ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby, 1833); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1833: 47; TL: South Africa, between Lataku and W. coast of Africa, N. of Orange R.
  • defassa

  709x600 (~172Kb) female Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark, August 1996, Photo © Ralf Schmode

• Kobus kob (Erxleben, 1777) Senegal - W.Ethiopia, Sudan, N.Zaire - W.Kenya, NW.Tanzania. See [maps] Kob

  • kob (Erxleben, 1777); Syst. Regn. Anim., 1: 293
  • K. k. thomasi Uganda Kob
• Kobus leche Gray, 1850 N.Botswana, NE.Namibia, SE.Angola, SE.Zaire, Zambia. See [maps] Lechwe

  • Kobus leche Gray, 1850; Gleanings from Menagerie at Knowlsey Hall, 2: 23; TL: Botswana, Zoaga River, near Lake Ngami
• Kobus megaceros (Fitzinger, 1855) S.Sudan, W.Ethiopia. See [maps] Nile Lechwe

  • megaceros (Fitzinger, 1855); Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 17: 247; TL: Sudan, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Sobat
• Kobus vardoni (Livingstone, 1857) S.Zaire, Zambia - to (Zambesi R., Chobe R.), Tanzania, Malawi, Zaire, E.Angola. See [maps] Puku

  • vardoni (Livingstone, 1857); Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: 256; TL: Zambia, Barotseland, Chobe Valley, near Libonta, 40°30'S, 23°15'E

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