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--> GENUS Gazella
SPECIES Gazella dorcas
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 69. | | Common Name: | Dorcas Gazelle | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Africa"; restricted to Lower Egypt by Blaine (1913:292), west of the Nile River (Osborn and Helmy, 1980:508). | | Distribution: | Algeria, N Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, N Ethiopia, S Israel, W Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, N Nigeria (vagrant), Senegal (seasonal; reintroduced), N Somalia, N Sudan, and Tunisia. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Tunisia); U.S. ESA – Endangered as G. d. massaesyla and G. d. pelzelni (sic); IUCN – Vulnerable as G. dorcas, not evaluated as G. d. pelzelnii. | | Comments: | Revised by Groves (1981c), reviewed by Ferguson (1981) and Yom-Tov et al. (1995, Mammalian Species, 491). Includes pelzelnii; see Gentry (1972:89); Haltenorth (1963:112) regarded it as a separate species. Due to differences in spelling Gazella dorcas massaesyla Cabrera, 1928 is not preoccupied by †Antilope (Dorcas) massoessilia Pomel, 1895 = †Gazella (or †Nanger) atlantica Bourguignat, 1870. |
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