Hippotragus niger ssp. variani

– Critically Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

ARTIODACTYLA

Family:

BOVIDAE

Scientific Name:

Hippotragus niger ssp. variani

Infra-specific Authority:

(Thomas, 1916)

Common Name/s:

English	—	GIANT SABLE ANTELOPE
French	—	HIPPOTRAGUE GÉANT DE L'ANGOLA, HIPPOTRAGUE NOIR GÉANT
Spanish	—	ANTÍLOPE SABLE NEGRO

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

CR A1d+2d, C1+2b ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Antelope Specialist Group

History:

1965	-	"Very rare and believed to be decreasing in numbers" (Scott 1965)
1986	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Angola

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

4.5	Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Threats

List of Threats:

9.9	Intrinsic factors - Restricted range (ongoing)
10.3	Human disturbance - War/civil unrest (ongoing)

Bibliography

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.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Citation:	Antelope Specialist Group 1996. Hippotragus niger ssp. variani. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 September 2008.
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