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Lelwel hartebeest
Male Lelwel hartebeest at Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Alcelaphus
Species:
A. buselaphus
Subspecies:
A. b. lelwel
Trinomial name
Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel
Heuglin, 1877
Range of Lelwel hartebeest

The Lelwel hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel), also known as Jackson's hartebeest, is an antelope native to Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

The Lelwel hartebeest can hybridize with Coke's hartebeest to make the Kenya Highland hartebeest (A. b. lelwel × cokii), or with Swayne's hartebeest to make the Neumann hartebeest (A. b. lelwel × swaynei).

References

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2017). "Alcelaphus buselaphus ssp. lelwel". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T816A50181544. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T816A50181544.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.


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