Oryx dammah (Cretzschmar, 1826) . In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugheth., 1:22.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Haraza, "probably Kordofan."

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Western Sahara and Tunisia to Egypt; Mauritania to Sudan; survives only in Chad.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: algazel, ensicornis, nubica, senegalensis, tao.

COMMENTS: Includes tao; see Ansell (1972:48). The name algazel Oken, 1816, was declared invalid by Opinion 417 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1956b).