Gazella subgutturosa (Guldenstaedt 1778)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 682

Gazella subgutturosa (Guldenstaedt 1778)

[Antilope] subgutturosa Guldenstaedt 1778 , Acta Acad. Sci. Petropoli for 1778, 1: 251.

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).

Vernacular Names: Goitered Gazelle.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. subgutturosa Guldenstaedt 1778

Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. hillieriana Heude 1894

Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. marica Thomas 1897

Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. yarkandensis Blanford 1875

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).

Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered as G. s. marica; IUCN – Vulnerable as G. s. marica, otherwise Near Threatened.

Discussion: 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 (1969 a). Reviewed by Kingswood and Blank (1996, Mammalian Species, 518).