page_title: List of mammals of Nigeria
section_title: Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Nigeria / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
caption_attribution_description: Kobus kob ♂ English: Uganda Kob (male) in the Queen Elisabeth National Park in Uganda Français&#160;: Kob dans le Parc National Reine Elizabeth, en Ouganda.
context_page_description: This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Nigeria. Of the mammal species in Nigeria, one is critically endangered, thirteen are endangered, sixteen are vulnerable, and ten are near threatened. One of the species listed for Nigeria can no longer be found in the wild.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
  Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories:
context_section_description: The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans.
  Family: Suidae (pigs)
  Subfamily: Phacochoerinae
  Genus: Phacochoerus
  Common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus LR/lc
  Subfamily: Suinae
  Genus: Hylochoerus
  Giant forest hog, Hylochoerus meinertzhageni LR/lc
  Genus: Potamochoerus
  Red river hog, Potamochoerus porcus LR/lc
  Family: Hippopotamidae (hippopotamuses)
  Genus: Choeropsis
  Pygmy hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis EN
  Genus: Hippopotamus
  Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius VU
  Family: Tragulidae
  Genus: Hyemoschus
  Water chevrotain, Hyemoschus aquaticus DD
  Family: Giraffidae (giraffe, okapi)
  Genus: Giraffa
  West African giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis peralta EN
  Family: Bovidae (cattle, antelope, sheep, goats)
  Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
  Genus: Alcelaphus
  Hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus LR/cd
  Genus: Damaliscus
  Korrigum, Damaliscus lunatus LR/cd
  Subfamily: Antilopinae
  Genus: Gazella
  Dama gazelle, Gazella dama CR
  Dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas VU
  Red-fronted gazelle, Gazella rufifrons VU
  Genus: Neotragus
  Bates's pygmy antelope, Neotragus batesi LR/nt
  Genus: Oreotragus
  Klipspringer, Oreotragus oreotragus LR/cd
  Genus: Ourebia
  Oribi, Ourebia ourebi LR/cd
  Subfamily: Bovinae
  Genus: Syncerus
  African buffalo, Syncerus caffer LR/cd
  Genus: Tragelaphus
  Giant eland, Tragelaphus derbianus LR/nt
  Bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus LR/lc
  Sitatunga, Tragelaphus spekii LR/nt
  Subfamily: Cephalophinae
  Genus: Cephalophus
  Bay duiker, Cephalophus dorsalis LR/nt
  Maxwell's duiker, Cephalophus maxwellii LR/nt
  Blue duiker, Cephalophus monticola LR/lc
  Black duiker, Cephalophus Niger LR/nt
  Black-fronted duiker, Cephalophus nigrifrons LR/nt
  Ogilby's duiker, Cephalophus ogilbyi LR/nt
  Red-flanked duiker, Cephalophus rufilatus LR/cd
  Yellow-backed duiker, Cephalophus silvicultor LR/nt
  Genus: Sylvicapra
  Common duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia LR/lc
  Subfamily: Hippotraginae
  Genus: Hippotragus
  Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus LR/cd
  Genus: Oryx
  Scimitar oryx, Oryx dammah EW
  Subfamily: Reduncinae
  Genus: Kobus
  Waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus LR/cd
  Kob, Kobus kob LR/cd
  Genus: Redunca
  Mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula LC
  Bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca LR/cd
caption: Kob
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