Dama mesopotamica (Brooke, 1875) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875:264.

TYPE LOCALITY: Iran, Luristan Province .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Iraq; survives in W Iran.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Regarded as a separate species from D. dama by Haltenorth (1959), Ferguson et al. (1985), Uerpmann (1987), and Harrison and Bates (1991).