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--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Hippotraginae
--> GENUS Oryx
SPECIES Oryx dammah
| Author: | Cretzschmar, 1827. | | Citation: | In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nördl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., 1: 22. | | Common Name: | Scimitar-horned Oryx | | Type Locality: | Sudan, Northern Kordofan Prov., "bewohnen die grossen Steppen von Haraza [vicinity of Jebel Haraza]". | | Distribution: | Extinct in Algeria, N Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, N Nigeria, N Senegal, Sudan, and Tunisia. Probably last occurred in the wild in the 1980s in Chad (East et al., 1999). Survives as captive populations. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Proposed Endangered; IUCN – Extinct in the Wild. | | Comments: | Year of publication is 1827, not 1826, according to J. E. Hill (ms notes based on Anon., 1829:1291-1292). Includes tao (Ansell, 1972:48). The name algazel Oken, 1816, was declared invalid by Opinion 417 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1956b). |
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