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Taxon: Tribe Boselaphini Knottnerus-Meyer, 1907 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla - (Family) Bovidae

Original position

Questionably Bovinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821

Original entries

Questionably †*Elachistoceras* (Genus) Thomas, 1977
Questionably †*Kipsigicerus* (Genus) Thomas, 1984
Questionably †*Mesembriportax* (Genus) Gentry, 1974
Questionably †*Phronetragus* (Genus) Gabunia, 1955
Questionably †*Pliodorcas* (Genus) Kretzoi, 1975
Questionably †*Plioportax* (Genus) Korotkevich, 1975
Questionably †*Samokeros* (Genus) Solounias, 1981

Subsequent entries

*Boselaphus* (Genus) Blainville, 1816
†*Duboisia* (Genus) Stremme, 1911
†*Eotragus* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1939
†*Miotragocerus* (Genus) Stromer, 1928
†*Pachyportax* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1937
†*Perimia* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1939
†*Proboselaphus* (Genus) Matsumoto, 1915
†*Protragocerus* (Genus) Depéret, 1887
†*Ruticeros* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1939
†*Selenoportax* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1937
†*Sivaportax* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1939
†*Sivoreas* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1939
†*Strogulognathus* (Genus) Filhol, 1890
*Tetracerus* (Genus) Leach, 1825
†*Tragoportax* (Genus) Pilgrim, 1937
†*Tragoreas* (Genus) Schlosser, 1904

Current position

Bovinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 443.

Alternative positions

Tragelaphinae (Subfamily) Jerdon, 1874

Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Historical positions

*Bovinae* (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 443.
*Bovinae* (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1061.
*Tragelaphinae* (Subfamily) Jerdon, 1874	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2g;2s; †21g
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	2g;2s; †21g
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[2g; †21g]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	[2g;2s]

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