Addax nasomaculatus (de Blainville, 1816) . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: Probably Senegambia .

DISTRIBUTION: Mauritania to Sudan; formerly Egypt to Tunisia.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: addax, gibbosa, mytilopes, suturosa.

COMMENTS: Nearly extinct in wild (East, 1990).