Bovid

Bovids
Sable Antelope
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae Gray, 1821
Subfamilies
Bovinae Cephalophinae Hippotraginae Antilopinae Caprinae Reduncinae Aepycerotinae Peleinae Alcelaphinae Pantholopinae

Bovids are a family of even-toed ungulate mammals with hooves that split into two toes.

There almost 140 mammals in this family. They include cattle, goats, sheep and antelopes. The family is widespread, living in continents except South America, Australia and Antarctica.

They are all ruminants, with the double stomach system of digesting vegetation, which is most efficient.

Taxonomy

• Family Bovidae
  • Subfamily Neotraginae
  • Subfamily Peleinae
    • Genus Pelea
      • Grey Rhebok (Pelea capreolus)
  • Subfamily Antilopinae
  • Subfamily Cephalophinae
  • Subfamily Alcelaphinae
    • Genus Connochaetes: Wildebeest
  • Subfamily Aepycerotinae
    • Genus Aepyceros
      • Impala (Aepyceros melampus)
  • Subfamily Hippotraginae
  • Subfamily Reduncinae
  • Subfamily Tragelaphinae
  • Subfamily Bovinae
  • Subfamily Caprinae