Gazella de Blainville 1816

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Gazella de Blainville 1816

Gazella de Blainville 1816 , Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816: 75.

Type Species: Capra dorcas Linnaeus 1758

Species and subspecies: 10 species with 26 subspecies:

Species Gazella arabica Lichtenstein 1827

Subspecies Gazella arabica subsp. arabica Lichtenstein 1827

Subspecies Gazella arabica subsp. bilkis Groves and Lay 1985

Species Gazella bennettii Sykes 1831

Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. bennettii Sykes 1831

Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. christii Blyth 1842

Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. fuscifrons Blanford 1873

Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. karamii Groves 1993

Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. salinarum Groves 2003

Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. shikarii Groves 1993

Species Gazella cuvieri Ogilby 1840

Species Gazella dorcas ( Linnaeus 1758)

Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. dorcas Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. beccarii De Beaux 1931

Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. isabella Gray 1846

Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. massaesyla Cabrera 1928

Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. osiris Blaine 1913

Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. pelzelnii Kohl 1886

Species Gazella erlangeri Neumann 1906

Species Gazella gazella (Pallas 1766)

Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. gazella Pallas 1766

Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. acaciae Mendelssohn, Groves and Shalmon 1997

Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. cora C. H. Smith 1827

Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. darehshourii Karami and Groves 1993

Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. farasani Thoulless and Al Basari 1991

Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. muscatensis Brooke 1874

Species Gazella leptoceros F. Cuvier 1842

Subspecies Gazella leptoceros subsp. leptoceros F. Cuvier 1842

Subspecies Gazella leptoceros subsp. loderi Thomas 1894

Species Gazella saudiya Carruthers and Schwarz 1935

Species Gazella spekei Blyth 1863

Species Gazella subgutturosa (Guldenstaedt 1778)

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

Discussion: Revised by Groves (1969 a), who recognised Trachelocele as a subgenus for G. subgutturosa only. Since then, Eudorcas has been revived ( Groves, 2000 b) and G. cuvieri , G. leptoceros , and G. subgutturosa have been recognised as a clade ( G. subgutturosa group) distinct from G. dorcas and G. erlangeri in sharing 11 unique centric fusions of the autosomes ( Vassart et al. 1995) and having similar mitochondrial genes (Rebholz and Harley, 1999). Trachelocele may seem redundant but Gazella may be paraphyletic, as the subgutturosa group could be a sister taxon of Antilope , sharing two unique centric fusions ( Vassart et al. 1995), suggesting the possible need to revive Trachelocele . The other species of Gazella may be divided into two groups. In the dorcas group, G. dorcas and G. erlangeri share 9 unique homologous centric fusions, G. spekei is similar to them in the low number of chromosomes; G. arabica and G. gazella should probably be included: a group including G. dorcas , G. gazella and G. spekei is supported, if weakly, by studies of mitochondrial DNA sequences (Rebholz and Harley, 1999). In the bennettii group, G. bennettii and G. saudiya share up to 6 unique homologous centric fusions, with some fission/fusion polymorphism, and are said to be genetically closer to the subgutturosa group than the dorcas group ( Kumamoto et al., 1995; Rebholz and Harley, 1999). Status of Palaearctic and Indian species reviewed by Mallon and Kingswood (2001).