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species

Sable Antelope
Hippotragus niger (W. C. Harris, 1838)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Bovidae - cattle, antelopes, sheep and goats »  genus Hippotragus

Scientific synonyms

Aigocerus niger Harris, 1838 o

Images

Hippotragus niger niger - South African Sable Antelope

Hippotragus niger niger - South African Sable Antelope

Author: Milan Kořínek

Hippotragus niger niger - South African Sable Antelope

Hippotragus niger niger - South African Sable Antelope

Author: Ing. Petr Pivoňka

Hippotragus niger - Sable Antelope

Author: Petr Vobořil

Hippotragus niger - Sable Antelope

Author: Petr Vobořil

Hippotragus niger niger - South African Sable Antelope

Hippotragus niger niger - South African Sable Antelope

Author: Zdeněk Chalupa

Hippotragus niger - Sable Antelope

Author: Petr Vobořil

Hippotragus niger - Sable Antelope

Author: Petr Vobořil

Hippotragus niger - Sable Antelope

Author: Petr Vobořil

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Intertaxon relationships

predator: Acinonyx jubatus (von Schreber, 1775) - Cheetah, Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) - Lion, Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben, 1777) - Spotted Hyena

Included taxa

Number of records: 5

subspecies Hippotragus niger anselli Groves, 1983 - Ansell's Sable Antelope

Hippotragus niger anselli

subspecies Hippotragus niger kirkii (Gray, 1872) - Zambian Sable Antelope
subspecies Hippotragus niger niger (Harris, 1838) - South African Sable Antelope

Hippotragus niger niger

subspecies Hippotragus niger rooseveltii (Heller, 1910) - Eastern Sable Antelope

Hippotragus niger rooseveltii

subspecies Hippotragus niger variani Thomas, 1916 - Giant Sable Antelope

Hippotragus niger variani


Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [10170]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Hippotragus niger (Harris, 1838)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006236]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Hippotragus niger (W. C. Harris, 1838)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Hippotragus niger Harris, 1838]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [658:rappenantilope]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Hippotragus niger (Harris, 1838)]

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