Damaliscus pygargus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Damaliscus
- Species
- Damaliscus pygargus
- Scientific Name
- Damaliscus pygargus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bontebok
The bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. D. pygargus has two subspecies; the nominate subspecies (D. p. pygargus), occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok (D. p. phillipsi) occurring in the Highveld.
The bontebok is related to the common tsessebe.
...Damaliscus pygargus in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Blesbok/Bontebok
- Afrikaans
- Bontbok
- Arabic
- ساسابي أبيض الردف
- Bokmål
- Dorcasantilope
- Czech
- buvolec pestrý
- Danish
- Blisbuk
- Dutch
- Bontebok / Blesbok
- Dutch
- Bontebok
- English
- Bontebok/Blesbok
- English
- Blesbok/Bontebok
- English
- Bontbok
- Finnish
- valkopäätopi
- German
- Buntbock
- Italian
- Damalisco fronte bianca
- Italian
- Antilope pigarga
- Modern Greek
- Αντιλόπη Μπόντεμποκ
- Portuguese
- Bonteboque
- Russian
- Беломордый бубал
- Russian
- бентбок
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