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The '''bushbuck''' (''Tragelaphus scriptus scriptus'') is the nominate taxon of the [[bushbuck]]. It is a small to medium-sized [[antelope]] widespread in Africa. The [[Cape bushbuck]] is a southern and eastern subspecies which is recognised by some authors, which found evidence to consider the northern and southern populations to belong to a different [[subspecies]] in 2007.<ref>Moodley Y, Bruford MW, Bleidorn C, Wronski T, Apio A, Plath M (2008) Analysis of mitochondrial DNA data reveals non-monophyly in the bushbuck (''Tragelaphus scriptus'') complex. ''Mammalian Biology'', {{doi|10.1016/j.mambio.2008.05.003}}</ref> |
The '''bushbuck''' (''Tragelaphus scriptus scriptus'') is the nominate taxon of the [[bushbuck]]. It is a small to medium-sized [[antelope]] widespread in Africa. The [[Cape bushbuck]] is a southern and eastern subspecies which is recognised by some authors, which found evidence to consider the northern and southern populations to belong to a different [[subspecies]] in 2007.<ref>Moodley Y, Bruford MW, Bleidorn C, Wronski T, Apio A, Plath M (2008) Analysis of mitochondrial DNA data reveals non-monophyly in the bushbuck (''Tragelaphus scriptus'') complex. ''Mammalian Biology'', {{doi|10.1016/j.mambio.2008.05.003}}</ref><ref>Wronski T, Moodley Y. (2009) Bushbuck, harnessed antelope or both? ''Gnusletter'', '''28'''(1):18-19.</ref> |
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==Distribution== |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Tragelaphus |
| Species: | T. scriptus
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| Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas, 1766)
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The bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus scriptus) is the nominate taxon of the bushbuck. It is a small to medium-sized antelope widespread in Africa. The Cape bushbuck is a southern and eastern subspecies which is recognised by some authors, which found evidence to consider the northern and southern populations to belong to a different subspecies in 2007.[1][2]
Distribution
It is common across its broad geographic distribution and is found in wooded savannas, forest-savanna mosaics, rainforests, in montane forests and semi-arid zones. It does not occur in the deep rainforests of the central Congo Basin.
Description and genetics
The bushbuck is in general smaller than other tragelaphines, with a mainly red or yellow-brown ground colour. It is conspicuously striped with several vertical and at least one horizontal stripe. The conspicuousness of its patterning tends to attenuate slightly in a west to east cline along the species range, being least striking in the decula population of Ethiopia.
19 genetically-based groupings were found in a 2007 study, some do not correspond to previously described subspecies, eight of these were grouped under the nominate taxon. This nominate scriptus population occurs in west Africa including Senegal, Gambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, while two populations occur along the upper and lower Volta River valley in Ghana, respectively, one in the Niger Basin in Nigeria as far east as the Cross River, phaleratus south of the Bamenda Highlands through Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo to northern Angola, bor from Lake Chad and the Chari River across the Central African Republic to the Nile, and lastly dodingae east of the Nile in lowland areas of southern Sudan and northern Uganda.[3]
As the first of the bushbucks to be described by Pallas in 1766 as Antilope scripta from Senegal, it retains the original species name for the bushbuck.
References
- ^ Moodley Y, Bruford MW, Bleidorn C, Wronski T, Apio A, Plath M (2008) Analysis of mitochondrial DNA data reveals non-monophyly in the bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) complex. Mammalian Biology, doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2008.05.003
- ^ Wronski T, Moodley Y. (2009) Bushbuck, harnessed antelope or both? Gnusletter, 28(1):18-19.
- ^ Moodley Y, Bruford MW. (2007) Molecular biogeography: Towards an integrated framework for conserving pan-African biodiversity. PLoS ONE. 2:e454.