Gazella dorcas (Linnaeus 1758)

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Gazella dorcas (Linnaeus 1758)

[Capra] dorcas Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 69 .

Type Locality: "Habitat in Africa"; restricted to Lower Egypt by Blaine (1913:292), west of the Nile River ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980:508).

Vernacular Names: Dorcas Gazelle.

Subspecies: :

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

Distribution: Algeria, N Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, N Ethiopia, S Israel, W Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, N Nigeria (vagrant), Senegal (seasonal; reintroduced), N Somalia, N Sudan, and Tunisia.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( Tunisia); U.S. ESA – Endangered as G. d. massaesyla and G. d. pelzelni (sic); IUCN – Vulnerable as G. dorcas , not evaluated as G. d. pelzelnii.

Discussion: Revised by Groves (1981 c), reviewed by Ferguson (1981) and Yom-Tov et al. (1995, Mammalian Species, 491). Includes pelzelnii; see Gentry (1972:89); Haltenorth (1963:112) regarded it as a separate species. Due to differences in spelling Gazella dorcas massaesyla Cabrera, 1928 is not preoccupied by † Antilope (Dorcas) massoessilia Pomel, 1895 = † Gazella (or † Nanger ) atlantica Bourguignat, 1870.