Antidorcas
Temporal range: 5.3–0 Ma Pliocene–Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Tribe: Antilopini
Genus: Antidorcas
Sundevall, 1847
Type species
Antidorcas marsupialis
(Zimmermann, 1780)
Species

1 living, several extinct (see text)

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]

Gazella

Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)

Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)

Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)

Saiga (Saiga tatarica)

Species

References

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