Kobus Smith 1840 (antelope)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Alternative spelling: Cobus

Parent taxon: Reduncini according to A. W. Gentry 2010

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Carroll 1988, Grubb 2001 and Lydekker 1885

Sister taxa: Menelikia, Redunca, Sivacobus, Thaleroceros, Zephyreduncinus

Subtaxa: Kobus barbarus Kobus basilcookei Kobus defassa Kobus ellipsiprymnus Kobus kob Kobus korotorensis Kobus laticornis Kobus leche Kobus megaceros Kobus oricornus Kobus presigmoidalis Kobus sigmoidalis Kobus subdolus Kobus tchadensis Kobus vardoni

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (9), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (4), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (46), Kenya (70), Niger (2), South Africa (4), Sudan (2), Tanzania (14), Zambia (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2), Malawi (2), Uganda (1)

• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (10), Kenya (14), Malawi (2), Morocco (1), South Africa (3), Tanzania (6)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (3), South Africa (1), Uganda (2)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (2)

Total: 219 collections including 292 occurrences

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