Tiang (antelope)

The tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang) is a subspecies of the topi, an African antelope.

Tiang
In Zakouma National Park, Chad
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Damaliscus
Species:
Subspecies:
D. l. tiang
Trinomial name
Damaliscus lunatus tiang
(Heuglin, 1863)
Range in light green

Depending on which topi populations you want to call tiang, they may be found in southern Chad, the northern Central African Republic, and southwestern South Sudan to southwestern Ethiopia, and extreme northwestern Kenya, or Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia.

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