Antidorcas
Genus of mammals
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Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species.[1][2]
| Antidorcas Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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1 living, several extinct (see text) | |
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]
