Tragelaphus spekii
Speke, 1863
Sitatunga
Distribution :
Disjunct. Swamps in Gambia, W Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and S Senegal; not authentically recorded from Sierra Leone and doubtfully recorded from Côte d’Ivoire. Rainforest and swamps in C and E Angola, S Benin, N Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad (Lake Chad only), Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini), Gabon, SE Ghana, W Kenya, Mozambique (W Tete Prov. only), NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip only), Niger (Lake Chad only; extinct), S Nigeria (and Lake Chad), Republic of Congo, Rwanda, S Sudan, W and NW Tanzania, Togo (extinct?), Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (extreme NW). Occurrence in Ghana only recently confirmed.
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Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Ruminantia |
| Infraorder | : Pecora |
| Superfamily | : Bovoidea |
| Family | : Bovidae |
| Subfamily | : Bovinae |
| Tribe | : Tragelaphini |
| Genus | : Tragelaphus |
| Subgenus | : Tragelaphus |
Species status
Authority citation
Speke, J.H. 1863. Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 658 pp.
Authority publication link
https://books.google.com/books?id=4H8SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223Original name as described
Tragelaphus Spekii
Other common names
East African Sitatunga · Marsh Buck · Lake Victoria Sitatunga · Nkosi Island Sitatunga · Western Sitatunga · Western Marsh Buck · Nile Sitatunga · Nile Marsh Buck · Zambezi Sitatunga · Selous's Sitatunga · Zambezi Marsh Buck
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1863.7.7.4
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/25ec0d18-7338-466c-8148-b5e0d73f980cType locality
Karagwe, E of Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Ghana · Benin · Togo? · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Equatorial Guinea · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · South Sudan · Uganda · Kenya · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Angola · Zambia · Namibia · Botswana · Zimbabwe
Taxonomy notes
includes sylvestris, larkenii, gratus, and selousi, which were considered distinct by Groves & Grubb 2011; for additional information regarding the MDD's decision to not follow the Groves & Grubb 2011 Ungulate Taxonomy, see 'Subjective decisions' on the 'About' tab
Taxonomy notes citation
Groves, C.P. and Grubb, P. 2011. Ungulate Taxonomy. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 309 pp. doi:10.56021/9781421400938 · Rakotoarivelo, A.R., Rambuda, T., Taron, U.H., Stalder, G., O'Donoghue, P., Robovský, J., Hartmann, S., Hofreiter, M. and Moodley, Y. 2024. Complex patterns of gene flow and convergence in the evolutionary history of the spiral-horned antelopes (Tragelaphini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 198:108131. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108131
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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