The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Kobus ellipsiprymnus ssp. defassa

 – Lower Risk Conservation Dependent

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: MAMMALIA
Order: ARTIODACTYLA
Family: BOVIDAE
Scientific Name: Kobus ellipsiprymnus ssp. defassa
Infra-specific Authority: (Rüppell, 1835)
Common Name/s: DEFASSA WATERBUCK (Eng)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LR/cd    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Antelope Specialist Group

Geographic Range

Countries: Native:

Angola; Benin; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Mali; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Uganda; Zambia


Possibly extinct regionally:

Gambia

Population

Population Trend: Down

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial; Freshwater; Marine

Citation: Antelope Specialist Group 1996. Kobus ellipsiprymnus ssp. defassa. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 May 2008.
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