Hippotragus

Hippotragus /hɪˈpɒtrəɡəs/ is a genus of antelopes which includes two living and one recently extinct species,^[3] as well as some fossil relatives. The name comes from Greek ἵππος (híppos), "horse", and τράγος (trágos), "he-goat".

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	H. equinus	Roan antelope	West, Central, East and Southern Africa
	H. niger	Sable antelope	East Africa, south of Kenya, and Southern Africa
	H. leucophaeus	†Bluebuck or blue antelope	the southwestern Cape of South Africa

Hippotragus
Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Hippotraginae
Genus:	Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845[1][2]
Type species
Antilope equina[1][2] É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803
Species
H. equinus H. niger †Hippotragus cookei? †Hippotragus gigas †H. leucophaeus

Fossil species

• †Hippotragus gigas^[4]
• †Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium^[5]