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Antidorcas
Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderArtiodactyla
- FamilyBovidae
Observations recorded7,578
Antidorcas, llamadas gacelas saltarinas, es un género de mamíferos artiodáctilos de la subfamilia Antilopinae que incluye a entre una y tres especies de pequeños antílopes africanos, según las referencias que se consulten. Cada una de las especies o subespecies ocupa un área geográfica de distribución distinta. A. marsupialis ocupa el sureste de Sudáfrica, A. hofmeyri se encuentra en Namibia y oeste de Sudáfrica, y A. angolensis solo se distribuye por una pequeña zona al suroeste de Angola.
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Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species.
== Modern Taxonomy == In 2013, Eva Verena Bärmann (of the University of Cambridge) and colleagues undertook a revision of the phylogeny of the tribe Antilopini on the basis of nuclear and mitochondrial data. They showed that the springbok and the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) form a clade with saiga (Saiga tatarica) as sister taxon. The study pointed out that the saiga and the springbok could be considerably different from the rest of the antilopines; a 2007 phylogenetic study even suggested that the two form a clade sister to the gerenuk. The cladogram below is based on the 2013 study.