Red Hartebeest

Red Hartebeest

Taxobox
name = Red Hartebeest



status = LR/cd
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
genus = "Alcelaphus"
species = "A. caama"
binomial = "Alcelaphus caama"
binomial_authority = Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803 [Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1803. Catalogue des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 272 pp.] Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3 Available online] ]
synonyms = "Alcelaphus buselaphus caama" G. Cuvier, 1804

The Red Hartebeest ("Alcelaphus caama") is a speciesWilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3 Available online] ] of even-toed ungulate in the Bovidae family. It is found in South Africa.

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