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''Raphicerus'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of small antelopes of the
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Neotragini ( subfamily Antilopinae). ''Raphicerus'' is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from
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in the north to the
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in
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. The genus contains three species: * Cape or southern grysbok ''R. melanotis'' * Sharpe's or northern grysbok ''R. sharpei'' * Steenbok ''R. campestris''


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Dwarf antelopes   Mammal genera Taxa named by Charles Hamilton Smith {{Eventoedungulate-stub