Hippotragus leucophaeus Assembly. Hippotragus leucophaeus

The bluebuck or blue antelope is an extinct antelope endemic to coastal South Africa. With a much wider distribution in the Pleistocene it was already in decline before European settlement in the region, and it went extinct in the late 18th century. Due to the short time span between its formal description and the time it went extinct, not much is known about its biology, and its phylogenetic placement is still inconclusive. We here sequence the complete mitochondrial genome of the bluebuck from a museum preserved horn.