Capra nubiana F. Cuvier 1825

Capra nubiana F. Cuvier 1825, in: E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammiferes, Vol. 6, part 50: "Bouc sauvage de la Haute-Egypte", p. 2, pl. 397.

Type Locality: Egypt, "de la Haute-Égypte … ou de Nubie"; Nubia (Lydekker, 1913:153; G. M. Allen, 1939:549) or Upper Egypt (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:407), which are virtually synonymous; here restricted to Sudan, Northern Prov., Nubian Desert, east of Nile River.

Vernacular Names: Nubian Ibex.

Distribution: Egypt east of the Nile, N Eritrea, Israel, W Jordan, Lebanon (extinct), SE Oman, Saudi Arabia, NE Sudan, Syria (extinct; no archaeological records), and SE Yemen.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Treated as a species distinct from C. ibex by Uerpmann (1987).