Beatragus
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| Beatragus | |
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| Hirola (Beatragus hunteri) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
| Genus: | Beatragus Heller, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Beatragus hunteri Sclater, 1889
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| Species[1] | |
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Beatragus is a genus of alcelaphine antelope. The hirola (Beatragus hunteri) is the only living representative, but a couple of extinct species are known, all from Africa.[2]
The hirola and the larger Beatragus antiquus may together represent different phases of a chronospecies; the living hirola probably declined in size as a result of an ecologically impoverished landscape.[3]
References
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External links
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