Lelwel hartebeest
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| Lelwel hartebeest | |
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| Male Lelwel hartebeest at Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
| Genus: | Alcelaphus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | A. b. lelwel |
| Trinomial name | |
| Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel Heuglin, 1877 | |
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| Range of Lelwel hartebeest | |
The Lelwel hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel), also known as Jackson's hartebeest, is an antelope native to Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The Lelwel hartebeest can hybridize with Coke's hartebeest to make the Kenya Highland hartebeest (A. b. lelwel × cokii), or with Swayne's hartebeest to make the Neumann hartebeest (A. b. lelwel × swaynei).
References
[edit]- ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2017). "Alcelaphus buselaphus ssp. lelwel". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T816A50181544. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T816A50181544.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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