Tiang (antelope)

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Tiang

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Damaliscus
Species:
Subspecies:
D. l. tiang
Trinomial name
Damaliscus lunatus tiang
(Heuglin, 1863)

The tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang) is a subspecies of the topi, an African antelope.

Depending on which topi populations you want to call tiang, they may be found in southern Chad, the northern Central African Republic, and southwestern Sudan to southwestern Ethiopia, and extreme northwestern Kenya,[2] or Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2017). "Damaliscus lunatus ssp. tiang". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T6242A50185852. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T6242A50185852.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ East, Rod; IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group (1998). "African Antelope Database". Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. 21: 200–207.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2012-06-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) African Game Guide Hartebeest Tiang


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