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Common eland
(Taurotragus oryx)[]
Species ID: 3-4-31-4365-15228
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Taurotragus
Conservation status: LC - Least Concern
Systems: Terrestrial
Links: IUCN Red List

Wikipedia

Subspecies[]

  • T. o. livingstonii (Livingstone's eland)
  • T. o. oryx (Cape eland)
  • T. o. pattersonianus (East African/Patterson's eland)

Other names[]

  • Southern eland
  • Eland antelope

Diet[]

  • Grasses
  • Leaves
  • Forbs
  • Seeds
  • Tubers

Biomes[]

Locations[]

Taurotragus oryx

Ecoregion range

Ecozones[]

Ecoregions[]

  • AT0108 East African montane forests
  • AT0109 Eastern Arc forests
  • AT0115 Knysna-Amatole montane forests
  • AT0119 Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
  • AT0125 Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
  • AT0128 Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
  • AT0701 Angolan Miombo woodlands
  • AT0702 Angolan Mopane woodlands
  • AT0704 Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
  • AT0705 East Sudanian savanna
  • AT0706 Eastern Miombo woodlands
  • AT0708 Itigi-Sumbu thicket
  • AT0709 Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
  • AT0711 Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
  • AT0714 Serengeti volcanic grasslands
  • AT0716 Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
  • AT0717 Southern Africa bushveld
  • AT0718 Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
  • AT0719 Southern Miombo woodlands
  • AT0721 Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
  • AT0724 Western Zambezian grasslands
  • AT0725 Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
  • AT0726 Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
  • AT0901 East African halophytics
  • AT0906 Zambezian coastal flooded savanna
  • AT0907 Zambezian flooded grasslands
  • AT1001 Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
  • AT1003 Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
  • AT1004 Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
  • AT1009 Highveld grasslands
  • AT1012 Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
  • AT1202 Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
  • AT1203 Montane fynbos and renosterveld
  • AT1309 Kalahari xeric savanna
  • AT1314 Nama Karoo
  • AT1316 Namibian savanna woodlands
  • AT1322 Succulent Karoo