Grant's gazelle | |
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A male at the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Antilopinae |
Tribe: | Antilopini |
Genus: | Nanger |
Species: | N. granti
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Binomial name | |
Nanger granti | |
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The distribution of Grant's gazelles | |
Synonyms | |
Gazella granti |
Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti) is a relatively large species of gazelle antelope, distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria.[3] Its Swahili name is swala granti.[4] It was named for a 19th-century British explorer, James Grant.[5]