Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Alternative combinations: Adenota kob, Antilope kob
Belongs to Kobus according to J. Peters 1990
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Erxleben 1777, Gentry 2010 and Ledger 1963
Sister taxa: Kobus barbarus, Kobus basilcookei, Kobus defassa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus, Kobus korotorensis, Kobus laticornis, Kobus leche, Kobus megaceros, Kobus oricornus, Kobus presigmoidalis, Kobus sigmoidalis, Kobus subdolus, Kobus tchadensis, Kobus vardoni
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (5), Kenya (22), Niger (1), Sudan (1), Tanzania (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Ethiopia (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (5)
Total: 49 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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