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SPECIES Capra nubiana

Author:F. Cuvier, 1825.
Citation:In É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, 6(part 50): "Bouc sauvage de la Haute-Egypte", p. 2, pl. 397.
Common Name:Nubian Ibex
Type Locality:Egypt, "de la Haute-Égypte … ou de Nubie"; Nubia (Lydekker, 1913:153; G. M. Allen, 1939:549) or Upper Egypt (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:407), which are virtually synonymous; here restricted to Sudan, Northern Prov., Nubian Desert, east of Nile River.
Distribution:Egypt east of the Nile, N Eritrea, Israel, W Jordan, Lebanon (extinct), SE Oman, Saudi Arabia, NE Sudan, Syria (extinct; no archaeological records), and SE Yemen.
Status:IUCN – Endangered.
Comments:Treated as a species distinct from C. ibex by Uerpmann (1987).
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