Sitatunga
Species of swamp-dwelling antelope / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) or marshbuck[3] is a swamp-dwelling medium-sized antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The sitatunga is mostly confined to swampy and marshy habitats. Here they occur in tall and dense vegetation as well as seasonal swamps, marshy clearings in forests, riparian thickets and mangrove swamps.
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Sitatunga | |
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A male at the Oji Zoo, Kobe, Japan | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Tragelaphus |
Species: | T. spekii |
Binomial name | |
Tragelaphus spekii Speke, 1863 | |
The range map of sitatunga | |
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