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Tiang (antelope)

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The tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang) is a subspecies of the topi, an African antelope.

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Family:Bovidae
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Tiang
In Zakouma National Park, Chad
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Damaliscus
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Subspecies:
D. l. tiang
Trinomial name
Damaliscus lunatus tiang
(Heuglin, 1863)
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Depending on which topi populations are classified as tiang, they may be found in southern Chad, the northern Central African Republic, and southwestern South Sudan to southwestern Ethiopia, and extreme northwestern Kenya,[2] or Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia.[3]

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