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Lelwel hartebeest | |
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Male Lelwel hartebeest atMurchison Falls National Park,Uganda. | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
Genus: | Alcelaphus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | A. b. lelwel |
Trinomial name | |
Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel Heuglin, 1877 | |
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Range of Lelwel hartebeest |
TheLelwel hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel), also known asJackson's hartebeest, is anantelope native toCentral African Republic,Chad, theDemocratic Republic of the Congo,Ethiopia,Kenya,South Sudan,Sudan,Tanzania, andUganda.
The Lelwel hartebeest can hybridize withCoke's hartebeest to make the Kenya Highland hartebeest (A. b. lelwel ×cokii), or withSwayne's hartebeest to make the Neumann hartebeest (A. b. lelwel ×swaynei).
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