Gazella leptoceros F. Cuvier 1842

Gazella leptoceros F. Cuvier 1842, in: E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammiferes, Vol. 7, part 72: " Antilope aux longues cornes", p. 2, pls. 373, 374.

Type Locality: "rapportés du Sennaar [Sudan, Sennar] par M. Burton"; corrected to "desert between Giza and Wadi Natron, lower Egypt, as the type-specimen was brought to Paris by James Burton, circa 1833" (Flower, 1932:438).

Vernacular Names: Slender-horned Gazelle.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Gazella leptoceros subsp. leptoceros F. Cuvier 1842

Subspecies Gazella leptoceros subsp. loderi Thomas 1894

Distribution: Algeria, S Tunisia, Libya, NW Egypt, Niger (Air Massif), and N Chad; apparently Mali and Sudan, though material evidence is lacking; not recorded from Mauritania.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (Tunisia); U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Status reviewed by East (1988) and Mallon and Kingswood (2001).