{{Short description|Subfamily of mammals}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Late Miocene to Present | image = Uganda-Kob.jpg | image_caption = Kob | taxon = Reduncinae | authority = Knottnerus-Meyer, 1907 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''Kobus''<br /> ''Redunca''<br /> ''Pelea'' }}
The bovid subfamily '''Reduncinae''' or tribe '''Reduncini'''<ref>{{Citation|last=Database|first=Mammal Diversity|title=Mammal Diversity Database|date=2021-11-06|doi=10.5281/zenodo.5651212 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/5651212|access-date=2022-01-30}}</ref> is composed of nine species of antelope, all of which dwell in marshes, floodplains, or other well-watered areas, including the waterbucks and reedbucks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Reduncinae.html|title=Subfamily Reduncinae - Rhebok, reedbucks, and waterbucks|website=www.ultimateungulate.com|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref> These antelopes first appear in the fossil record 7.4 million years ago in Eurasia and 6.6 Mya in Africa.
==Taxonomy== * Family Bovidae ** '''Subfamily Reduncinae''' *** Genus ''Kobus'' **** Waterbuck, ''Kobus ellipsiprymnus'' **** Kob, ''Kobus kob'' **** Lechwe, ''Kobus leche'' **** Nile lechwe, ''Kobus megaceros'' **** Puku, ''Kobus vardonii'' *** Genus ''Redunca'' **** Southern reedbuck, ''Redunca arundinum'' **** Mountain reedbuck, ''Redunca fulvorufula'' **** Bohor reedbuck, ''Redunca redunca'' *** Genus ''Pelea'' **** Grey rhebok, ''Pelea capreolus'' *** Genus †''Menelikia'' ****''Menelikia leakeyi'' ****''Menelikia lyrocera'' *** Genus †''Procobus'' ****''Procobus brauneri'' ****''Procobus melania'' *** Genus †''Sivacobus'' (Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent)<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Vrba|first1=Elisabeth S.|last2=Bibi|first2=Faysal|last3=Costa|first3=August G.|date=2015-07-04|title=First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2014.943399|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|language=en|volume=35|issue=4|article-number=e943399|doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.943399|bibcode=2015JVPal..35E3399V |s2cid=83914701 |issn=0272-4634|url-access=subscription}}</ref> ****''Sivacobus palaeindicus'' ****''Sivacobus patulicornis'' ****''Sivacobus sankaliai'' (Late Pleistocene) *** Genus †''Thaleroceros'' ****''Thaleroceros radiciformis'' *** Genus †''Zephyreduncinus'' ****''Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus''
==Alternate classification== * ''Adenota'' is an alternate genus or subgenus composed of the kob and puku.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ronald|first=H. Pine|date=1993-02-19|title=Nowak, R. M. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 5th ed., 1: i–xlviii + 1–642 + xlix–lxiii and 2: i–xiii + 643–1629 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3970-X. Price (hardbound)|url=https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/74/1/236/831695|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|language=en|volume=74|issue=1|pages=236–238|doi=10.2307/1381927|issn=0022-2372|jstor=1381927|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Artiodactyla|R.2}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q132631}}
Category:Marsh antelopes Category:Mammal tribes