Hippotragus leucophaeus

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

ARTIODACTYLA

Family:

BOVIDAE

Scientific Name:

Hippotragus leucophaeus

Species Authority:

(Pallas, 1766)

Common Name/s:

English

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BLUE BUCK

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

Citation:	Antelope Specialist Group 1996. Hippotragus leucophaeus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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