Ammotragus lervia (Pallas 1777)

[Antilope] lervia Pallas 1777, Spicil. Zool., 12: 12.

Type Locality: "Africae borealori propria"; restricted to Algeria, Department of Oran (Harper, 1940).

Vernacular Names: Barbary Sheep.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Ammotragus lervia subsp. lervia Pallas 1777

Subspecies Ammotragus lervia subsp. angusi W. Rothschild 1921

Subspecies Ammotragus lervia subsp. blainei W. Rothschild 1913

Subspecies Ammotragus lervia subsp. fassini Lepri 1930

Subspecies Ammotragus lervia subsp. ornatus I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1827

Subspecies Ammotragus lervia subsp. sahariensis W. Rothschild 1913

Distribution: Algeria, N Chad, Egypt, Libya, N Mali, Mauritania, Morocco (including Western Sahara), Niger, Sudan (west of Nile and east of Nile in Red Sea Hills), and Tunisia; introduced to USA, N Mexico and Spain.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Extinct in the Wild as A. l. ornatus, otherwise Vulnerable.

Discussion: Subspecific systematics from Ansell (1972:71). Reviewed by Gray and Simpson (1980, Mammalian Species, 144).