Grazing antelope
| Grazing antelopes Temporal range: Pleistocene to recent | |
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| Hippotragus niger | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Hippotraginae Brooke, 1876 |
| Genera | |
A grazing antelope is any of the species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae of the family Bovidae. As grazers, rather than browsers, the "Hippo" in Hippotraginae refers to the slightly horse-like characteristics of body size and proportions: long legs and a solid body with a relatively thick muscular neck.
- Subfamily Hippotraginae
- Genus Hippotragus
- Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus
- Sable antelope, Hippotragus niger
- Giant sable antelope Hippotragus niger varani
- Bluebuck, Hippotragus leucophaeus (extinct)
- Genus Oryx
- East African oryx, Oryx beisa
- Scimitar oryx, Oryx dammah
- Gemsbok, Oryx gazella
- Arabian oryx, Oryx leucoryx
- Genus Addax
- Addax, Addax nasomaculatus
- Genus Hippotragus
- Subfamily Hippotraginae
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