Taurotragus

Taurotragus is a genus of giant antelopes of the African savanna, commonly known as elands. It contains two species: the common eland T. oryx and the giant eland T. derbianus.

==Taxonomy== {{cladogram|align=left|title= |caption=Phylogenetic relationships of the Taurotragus species in relation to the species from a paraphyletic Tragelaphus. From combined analysis of all molecular data (Willows-Munro et.al. 2005) |cladogram={{clade | style=font-size:90%;line-height:100%;width:300px; |1={{clade |1={{clade |label1= |1= {{clade|label1= |1= {{clade |label1= |1={{clade |1= }} }} }} |2=Nyala}} |2=Lesser kudu }} }} }} Taurotragus is a genus of large African antelopes, placed under the subfamily Bovinae and family Bovidae. The genus authority is the German zoologist Johann Andreas Wagner, who first mentioned it in the journal Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen in 1855. The name is composed of two Greek words: ταῦρος (taûros), meaning a "bull" or "bullock", and τράγος (trágos), meaning a "male goat"—in reference to the tuft of hair that grows in the eland's ear which resembles a goat's beard.