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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Antilopinae
--> GENUS Gazella
SPECIES Gazella leptoceros
| Author: | F. Cuvier, 1842. | | Citation: | In É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, 7(part 72): "Antilope aux longues cornes", p. 2, pls. 373, 374. | | Common Name: | Slender-horned Gazelle | | Type Locality: | "rapportés du Sennaar [Sudan, Sennar] par M. Burton"; corrected to "desert between Giza and Wadi Natron, lower Egypt, as the type-specimen was brought to Paris by James Burton, circa 1833" (Flower, 1932:438). | | Distribution: | Algeria, S Tunisia, Libya, NW Egypt, Niger (Air Massif), and N Chad; apparently Mali and Sudan, though material evidence is lacking; not recorded from Mauritania. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Tunisia); U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Status reviewed by East (1988) and Mallon and Kingswood (2001). |
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