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Definition of Strepsiceros kudu

Strepsiceros kudu
Koodoo Koo"doo, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut. [Written also kudu.]

Meaning of Strepsiceros kudu from wikipedia

- subspecies, Strepsiceros strepsiceros (Cape kudu), Strepsiceros chora (northern kudu), Strepsiceros cottoni (western kudu), and Strepsiceros zambesiensis...
- strepsiceros, of eastern and southern Africa The two species look similar, though greaters are larger than lessers. A large adult male greater kudu stands...
- American zoologist Edmund ****er, the type species being A. strepsiceros. The lesser kudu is now typically placed in Tragelaphus. However, a 2011 publication...
- eland Genus Strepsiceros Hamilton Smith, 1827 – greater kudus Strepsiceros strepsiceros (Pallas, 1766) – Cape greater kudu Strepsiceros zambesiensis...
- Tragelaphus eurycerus T. e. isaaci T. e. eurycerus Greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros T. s. strepsiceros T. s. chora T. s. cottoni Cape bushbuck, Tragelaphus...
- the lesser kudu are relocated to their own monospecific genera, respectively Nyala and Ammelaphus. Other generic synonyms include Strepsiceros (which applies...
- to the two kudu species (then placed under the genus Strepsiceros). In fact, mountain nyala's similarity to both Tragelaphus and Strepsiceros led to the...
- lesser kudu (T.  imberbis) basal in the phylogeny, followed by the nyala. On the basis of mitochondrial data, studies have estimated that the lesser kudu separated...
- usually occurs without significant health effects in the Greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), but may affect cardiac function in some other host species...
- derived from the Ndebele name for the greater kudu ( ibhalabhala) (scientific name: Tragelaphus strepsiceros). It was originally rendered Balla Balla by...