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 is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
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 ...
:
* ''
Dorcatragus''
**
Beira ''D. megalotis''
* ''
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, typ ...
''M. kirkii''
**
Silver dik-dik ''M. piacentinii''
**
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 ...
''M. saltiana''
* ''
Neotragus''
**
Royal antelope ''N. pygmaeus''
* ''
Ourebia''
**
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 ...
''O. ourebi''
* ''
Raphicerus''
**
Steenbok ''R. campestris''
**
Cape grysbok ''R. melanotis''
**
Sharpe's grysbok ''R. sharpei''
Some mammalogists (
Haltenorth, 1963)
[
] considered this group as a distinct subfamily (Neotraginae).
References
True antelopes
Mammal tribes
Bovidae
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