Hippotragus leucophaeus

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Antelope Specialist Group

Justification:

The last individual of Hippotragus leucophaeus was killed around 1800.

History:

1986	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Extinct (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Range Description:	This endemic South African species was restricted to the southern coastal areas where it was hunted by European settlers throughout the 1700s.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: South Africa

Population:

The last of the species was killed around 1800.

System:

Terrestrial

Bibliography:

East, R. (compiler) 1999. African Antelope Database 1998. IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group.

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.

Citation:	Antelope Specialist Group 1996. Hippotragus leucophaeus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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