With the scientific name Taurotragus oryx, which is the largest species of antelope?
Taurotragus a male hormone, which is highest during rutting. Taurotragus Taurotragus is a genus of large antelopes of the African savanna, commonly known as elands. It contains two species: the common eland "T. oryx" and the giant eland "T. derbianus". "Taurotragus" is a genus of large African antelopes, placed under the subfamily Bovinae and family Bovidae. The genus authority is the German zoologist Johann Andreas Wagner, who first mentioned it in the journal "Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen" in 1855. The name is composed of two Greek words: "Taurus" or "Tauros", meaning a bull or bullock; and
Scimitar oryx no more changes since then, though many papers published after 1956 created confusion by using names like "O. gazella tao". Its scientific name, "Oryx dammah", is derived from: Ancient Greek ("orux"), meaning a gazelle or antelope (originally a pickaxe); Latin "damma" (fallow deer or antelope); and Arabic "dammar" (sheep). The scimitar oryx is named for its horns, which resemble scimitars. Its common name in English is "scimitar-horned oryx", or simply "scimitar oryx". The scimitar oryx has 58 chromosomes. It has one pair of large submetacentric autosomes and 27 acrocentric autosomal pairs. The X and Y chromosomes are the largest and