Nanger dama (Pallas 1766)

[Antilope] dama Pallas 1766, Misc. Zool.: 5.

Type Locality: No locality cited; based on "Le Nanguer" of Buffon from " Sénégal "; see discussion in Harper (1940).

Vernacular Names: Dama Gazelle.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Nanger dama subsp. dama Pallas 1766

Subspecies Nanger dama subsp. mhorr Bennett 1833

Subspecies Nanger dama subsp. ruficollis C. H. Smith 1827

Distribution: S and W Algeria, N Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt (one Recent record from Western Desert), S Mali, S Mauritania (extinct), Morocco, S Niger, N Nigeria (extinct?), N Senegal (extinct but reintroduced), N Sudan (W of Nile), Tunisia.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I as Gazella dama; U.S. ESA – Endangered as G. d. lozanoi and G. d. mhorr, otherwise Proposed Endangered as G. dama; IUCN – Endangered as G. dama .

Discussion: Revised by Andreae and Krumbiegel (1976), who retained lozanoi and permista (includes reducta) as separate subspecies, and Cano Perez (1984), who reduced them to synonymy. Wirth (1984) defended the status of these two subspecies. Status reviewed by Mallon and Kingswood (2001).