Editing Common eland (section)

===Subspecies===
Three subspecies of common elands have been recognized, though their validity has been disputed.<ref name="IUCN"/><ref name=wilson>{{MSW3 Artiodactyla | id = 14200717 | page = 696–7}}</ref><ref name=Pappas/><ref name=Harris/><ref name=skinner>{{cite book | last = Skinner | first = JD | title = The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion | year = 2005 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | location = Cambridge | isbn = 978-0-521-84418-5 | pages = [https://books.google.com/books?id=iqwEYkTDZf4C&pg=PA637 637–9] |edition = 3rd |author2=Chimimba, CT | chapter = Ruminantia }}</ref>

* '''''T. o. oryx''''' ([[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1766; Cape eland): also called ''alces'', ''barbatus'', ''canna'' and ''oreas''. It is found in [[Southern Africa|Southern]] and southwestern Africa. The fur is [[Tawny (color)|tawny]] and adults lose their stripes.
* '''''T. o. livingstonii''''' ([[Philip Sclater|Sclater]], 1864; Livingstone's eland): also called ''kaufmanni'', ''niediecki'', ''selousi'' and ''triangularis''. It is found in the [[Central Zambezian miombo woodlands]]. Livingstone's eland has brown fur with up to 12 stripes.
* '''''T. o. pattersonianus''''' ([[Richard Lydekker|Lydekker]], 1906; East African eland or Patterson's eland): also called ''billingae''. It is found in [[East Africa]], hence its common name. Like Livingstone's eland, its fur can also have up to 12 stripes.
:Found by and named after [[John Henry Patterson (author)|John Henry Patterson]], who describes the specimen in ''[[The Man-eaters of Tsavo]]'' (1907).<ref name="patterson1907">{{Cite book |last=Patterson |first=John Henry |title=The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures |url=https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3810 |year=1907 |chapter=Chapter XXVII: The Finding of the New Eland}}</ref>
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File:The book of antelopes (1894) Taurotragus oryx.png|Illustration of ''T. o. oryx''.
File:The book of antelopes (1894) Taurotragus oryx livingstonii.png|Illustration of ''T. o. livingstonii''.
File:Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus 1907.jpg|Illustration of ''T. o. pattersonianus''.
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