Grazing antelope
{{Taxobox
color = pink | name = Grazing antelopes | image_caption = Scimitar Oryx | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Mammalia | ordo = Artiodactyla | familia = Bovidae | subfamilia = Hippotraginae | subfamilia_authority = Brooke, 1876 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = Hippotragus
Oryx
AddaxA grazing antelope is any of the species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae in the family Bovidae, which also includes sheep, goats, and cattle.
* FAMILY BOVIDAE
** Subfamily Bovinae: wild cattle and spiral-horned antelopes, 24 species in 9 genera
** Subfamily Cephalophinae: duikers, 19 species in 2 genera
** Subfamily Hippotraginae
*** Genus Hippotragus
**** Roan Antelope, Hippotragus equinus
**** Sable Antelope, Hippotragus niger
**** Bluebuck, Hippotragus Leucophaeus (extinct)
*** Genus Oryx
**** East African Oryx, Oryx beisa
**** Scimitar Oryx, Oryx dammah
**** Gemsbok, Oryx gazella
**** Arabian Oryx, Oryx leucoryx
*** Genus Addax
**** Addax, Addax nasomaculatus
** Subfamily Antilopinae: gazelles, dwarf antelopes and the Saiga, 38 species in 14 genera
** Subfamily Caprinae: sheep, goats, cattle and allies
** Subfamily Reduncinae: waterbucks, reedbucks, 8 species in 2 genera
** Subfamily Aepycerotinae: impala, 1 species in 1 genus
** Subfamily Peleinae: rhebok, 1 species in 1 genus
** Subfamily Alcelaphinae: wildebeest, haartbeast, 7 species in 5 genera
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