Bovid

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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 group of even-toed ungulate mammals that hooves that split into two toes. There almost 140 mammals in this family. They form the family Bovidae. Examples of this family are cattle, goats and sheep. The family is widespread, living in continents except South America, Australia and Antarctica.

[change] 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

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