The
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
Neotragini
comprises the dwarf antelopes of
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
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Dorcatragus
The beira (''Dorcatragus megalotis'') is a small arid adapted antelope that inhabits arid regions of the Horn of Africa. It is the only member of the genus ''Dorcatragus''.
Description
The beira has a bushy tail and a coarse coat which is red ...
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Beira ''D. megalotis''
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Madoqua''
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Günther's dik-dik
Günther's dik-dik (''Madoqua guentheri'') is a small antelope found in arid zones of East Africa.
Description
Günther's dik-dik is one of the smallest ungulates in Africa, weighing when fully grown. It has a yellowish-gray to reddish-brown c ...
''M. guentheri''
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Kirk's dik-dik
Kirk's dik-dik (''Madoqua kirkii'') is a small antelope native to Eastern Africa and one of four species of dik-dik antelope. It is believed to have six subspecies and possibly a seventh existing in southwest Africa. Dik-diks are herbivores, typi ...
''M. kirkii''
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Silver dik-dik ''M. piacentinii''
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Salt's dik-dik
Salt's dik-dik (''Madoqua saltiana'') is a small antelope found in semidesert, bushland, and thickets in the Horn of Africa, but marginally also in northern Kenya and eastern Sudan. It is named after Henry Salt, who was the first European to ack ...
''M. saltiana''
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Neotragus''
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Royal antelope
The royal antelope (''Neotragus pygmaeus'') is a West African antelope, recognized as the world's smallest antelope. It was first described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It stands up to merely at the shoulder and weighs . A chara ...
''N. pygmaeus''
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Ourebia
The oribi (; ''Ourebia ourebi'') is a small antelope found in eastern, southern and western Africa. The sole member of its genus, it was described by the German zoologist Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1783. While this is the monotyp ...
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Oribi
The oribi (; ''Ourebia ourebi'') is a small antelope found in eastern, southern and western Africa. The sole member of its genus, it was described by the German zoologist Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1783. While this is the only m ...
''O. ourebi''
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Raphicerus
''Raphicerus'' is a genus of small antelopes of the tribe Neotragini ( subfamily Antilopinae).
''Raphicerus'' is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Kenya in the north to the Western Cape in South Africa
South Africa, officia ...
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Steenbok
The steenbok (''Raphicerus campestris'') is a common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa. It is sometimes known as the steinbuck or steinbok.
Description
Steenbok resemble small oribi, standing 45–60 cm (16"–24") at the ...
''R. campestris''
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Cape grysbok
The Cape or southern grysbok (''Raphicerus melanotis'') is a small antelope that is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa between Albany and the Cederberg mountains.
Description
left, Illustrated in ''The Book of Antelopes'' (18 ...
''R. melanotis''
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Sharpe's grysbok
Sharpe's or northern grysbok (''Raphicerus sharpei'') is a small, shy, solitary antelope that is found from tropical to south-eastern Africa.
Range
They are found in the Transvaal (South Africa), the Caprivi Strip (Namibia), Botswana, Mozambique ...
''R. sharpei''
Some mammalogists (
Haltenorth, 1963)
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References
True antelopes
Mammal tribes
Bovidae
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