Talk:Hartebeest

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Some author citations are incorrect

I noticed several mistakes w.r.t author citations. I can't check all of them right now, but remember that parentheses around an author citation mean that it was originally described in a different genus and also that the author does not change (other than the parentheses) when the genus is transferred.

For instance, in the synonyms:

Antilope buselaphus Pallas, 1766
Antilope bubalis Pallas, 1767

Since Pallas described them in the genus Antilope, there should be no parentheses.

B. buselaphus would have the author citation (Pallas, 1766), maybe (Pallas, 1766) Lichtenstein, 1814 but certainly not just (Lichtenstein, 1814)

For the subspecies

A. b. cokii Günther, 1884 — parentheses are incorrect as Günther described it as Alcelaphus cokii, i.e., within the same genus.
A. b. tora Gray, 1873 also should not have parentheses.

Umimmak (talk) 02:07, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]