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--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Antilopinae
--> GENUS Gazella
SPECIES Gazella subgutturosa
| Author: | Guldenstaedt, 1778. | | Actual Date: | 1780 | | Citation: | Acta Acad. Sci. Petropoli for 1778, 1: 251. | | Common Name: | Goitered Gazelle | | Type Locality: | "Patria Antilopes subgutturosai Persia est. Inter mare caspicum & nigrum septentrionem versus usque ad pedem australem promontorii iugi alpini caucasici, vix ultra gradum latitudinis 42 procedit … per Georgiam … per Cardueliam et Cachetiam regis … Teflisi" (Georgia, steppes of E Transcaucasia, near Tbilisi). | | Distribution: | Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, China (Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Sinkiang, N Tibet), SE Georgia (extinct), Iran, Iraq, E Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait (extinct), Kyrgyztan (extinct?), Mongolia, Oman, WC Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, SE Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Yemen (possibly extinct). | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered as G. s. marica; IUCN – Vulnerable as G. s. marica, otherwise Near Threatened. | | Comments: | The type locality may once have been within the boundaries of Persia (Iran) (Heptner et al., 1961) but does not lie within its modern limits. Revised by Groves (1969a). Reviewed by Kingswood and Blank (1996, Mammalian Species, 518). |
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