Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > Bovidae > Aepyceros > Aepyceros melampusAepyceros melampus (impala)Synonyms: Antilope melampus (homotypic) ("Aepyceros" redirects here. For the extinct species, see Aepyceros datoadeni. For other uses, see Impala (disambiguation).) The impala (pronounced /ɪmˈpɑːlə,-ˈpalə/) (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-sized antelope in eastern and southern Africa. The sole member of the genus Aepyceros, it was first described by German zoologist Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein in 1812. Two subspecies are recognised – the common impala, and the larger and darker black-faced impala. The impala reaches 70–92 centimetres (28–36 inches) at the shoulder and weighs 40–76 kilograms (88–168 pounds). It features a glossy, reddish brown coat. The male's slender, lyre-shaped horns are 45–92 centimetres (18–36 in) long. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.87 EDGE Score: 2.29 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 115.743 lbs (52.50 kg) | | Birth Weight [1] | 12.236 lbs (5.55 kg) | | Male Weight [3] | 137.79 lbs (62.50 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year 3 months | | Male Maturity [1] | 1 year 1 month | | | Gestation [1] | 6 months 18 days | | Litter Size [1] | 1 | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 26 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 4.789 feet (146 cm) | | Speed [4] | 47.199 MPH (21.1 m/s) | | Weaning [1] | 5 months 17 days |
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Angolan Mopane woodlands |
Angola, Namibia |
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Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands |
Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi |
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Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests |
South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho |
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Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Miombo woodlands |
Tanzania, Mozambique |
Afrotropic |
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Itigi-Sumbu thicket |
Tanzania, Zambia |
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Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands |
Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa |
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Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Kaokoveld desert |
Namibia, Angola |
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Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Maputaland coastal forest mosaic |
Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands |
Kenya |
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Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya |
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Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Serengeti volcanic grasslands |
Tanzania |
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Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Tanzania, Kenya |
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Southern Africa bushveld |
Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa |
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Southern Miombo woodlands |
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia |
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Zambezian and Mopane woodlands |
South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Malawi |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Wikipedia licensed under a Creative Commons License♦ 5A RECORD OF FRUITS AND SEEDS DISPERSED BY MAMMALS AND BIRDS FROM SINGIDA DISTRICT OF TANGANYIKA TERRITORY, B. D. BURTT, Journal of Ecology Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 351-355 (1929) ♦ 6Who's Eating Who♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 8Canis mesomelas, Lyle R. Walton and Damien O. Joly, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 715, pp. 19 (2003) ♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 10Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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