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--> GENUS Nanger
SPECIES Nanger dama
Author: | Pallas, 1766. | Citation: | Misc. Zool.: 5. | Common Name: | Dama Gazelle | Type Locality: | No locality cited; based on "Le Nanguer" of Buffon from "Sénégal"; see discussion in Harper (1940). | Distribution: | S and W Algeria, N Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt (one Recent record from Western Desert), S Mali, S Mauritania (extinct), Morocco, S Niger, N Nigeria (extinct?), N Senegal (extinct but reintroduced), N Sudan (W of Nile), Tunisia. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I as Gazella dama; U.S. ESA – Endangered as G. d. lozanoi and G. d. mhorr, otherwise Proposed Endangered as G. dama; IUCN – Endangered as G. dama. | Comments: | Revised by Andreae and Krumbiegel (1976), who retained lozanoi and permista (includes reducta) as separate subspecies, and Cano Perez (1984), who reduced them to synonymy. Wirth (1984) defended the status of these two subspecies. Status reviewed by Mallon and Kingswood (2001). |
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