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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Caprinae
--> GENUS Ammotragus
SPECIES Ammotragus lervia
| Author: | Pallas, 1777. | | Citation: | Spicil. Zool., 12: 12. | | Common Name: | Barbary Sheep | | Type Locality: | "Africae borealori propria"; restricted to Algeria, Department of Oran (Harper, 1940). | | Distribution: | Algeria, N Chad, Egypt, Libya, N Mali, Mauritania, Morocco (including Western Sahara), Niger, Sudan (west of Nile and east of Nile in Red Sea Hills), and Tunisia; introduced to USA, N Mexico and Spain. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Extinct in the Wild as A. l. ornatus, otherwise Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Subspecific systematics from Ansell (1972:71). Reviewed by Gray and Simpson (1980, Mammalian Species, 144). |
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