Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus Pallas, 1766:7

Bubal hartebeest, Northern hartebeest, Bubal antelope, Bubal

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Bubalis buselaphus Pallas, 1766:7

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record (captive animal): 9 November 1923

Last record (wild animal): 1925 (Loggers et al., 1992; Gippoliti et al., 2017); 1945 (doubtful record) (see Loggers et al., 1992)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia)

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

There appears to only be a single photo of a living Bubal hartebeest, taken in 1895 by Lewis Medland of an animal that lived at London Zoo from 4 October 1883 until 27 April 1897.

Source: https://endlingmusings.tumblr.com/post/634347806432378880/a-rarely-seen-uncropped-version-of-the-only-known

References

Original scientific description:

Pallas, Peter Simon. (1766). Miscellanea zoologica quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae ani­malium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. The Hague, Netherlands: Petrum van Cleef. i­xii + 1-224 pp., pls. 1-14.

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Cabrera, A. (1932). Los mammiferos de Marruecos. Trab. Mus. nav. Cienc. nat., Madrid, Ser. zool. 57: 1-361.

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

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Edwards, John. (1996). London Zoo from Old Photographs: 1852-1914. London: John Edwards. 240 pp.

Flagstad O, Syversten PO, Stenseth NC & Jakobsen KS (2001): Environmental change and rates of evolution: the phylogeographic pattern within the hartebeest complex as related to climatic variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, 268: 667-677.

Fuller, Errol. (2013). Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Gippoliti, Spartaco, Cotterill, Fenton P. D., Zinner, Dietmar and Groves, Colin P. (2017). Impacts of taxonomic inertia for the conservation of African ungulate diversity:an overview. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/brv.12335

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