Antidorcas

Antidorcas is a genus of antelope that includes the living springbok and several fossil species.^[1][2]

Antidorcas Temporal range: 5.3–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Pliocene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Antilopinae
Tribe:	Antilopini
Genus:	Antidorcas Sundevall, 1847
Type species
Antidorcas marsupialis (Zimmermann, 1780)
Species
1 living, several extinct (see text)

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.^[3] 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.^[4] The cladogram below is based on the 2013 study.^[3]

	Gazelle (Gazella) Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Nanger Eudorcas Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) Saiga (Saiga tatarica)

Species

• Antidorcas marsupialis - Springbok
• †Antidorcas australis
• †Antidorcas bondi
• †Antidorcas recki