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Duiker
Subfamily of antelopes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Duiker (disambiguation).
A duiker /ˈdaɪkər/ is a small to medium-sized brown antelope native to sub-Saharan Africa, found in heavily wooded areas. The 22 extant species, including three sometimes considered to be subspecies of the other species, form the subfamily Cephalophinae or the tribe Cephalophini.
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Red forest duiker, Cephalophus natalensis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Cephalophinae Blyth, 1863 |
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