Bontebok

Bontebok
	Bontebok in Bontebok National Park, South Africa.
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
	CITES Appendix II
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Alcelaphinae
Genus:	Damaliscus
Species:	D. pygargus
Binomial name
	Damaliscus pygargus; (Pallas, 1767)
Subspecies
	D. p. pygargus; D. p. phillipsi;
	Damaliscus pygargus distribution

The bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. D. pygargus has two subspecies; the nominate subspecies (D. p. pygargus), occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok (D. p. phillipsi) occurring in the Highveld.

The bontebok is related to the common tsessebe.