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Oryx beisa Rüppell 1835
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Oryx beisa Rüppell 1835
Oryx beisa Rüppell 1835, Neue Wirbelthiere z. d. Fauna Abyssinien gehorig, Saugeth.: 14.
Type Locality: Eritrea, "in den Niederungen der Küstenlandschaft bei Massaua" (Red Sea coast west of Massawa).
Vernacular Names: Beisa.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Oryx beisa subsp. beisa Rüppell 1835
Subspecies Oryx beisa subsp. callotis Thomas 1892
Distribution: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, NE and SE Sudan, NE Uganda (extinct?), and NE Tanzania.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (cd) as O. gazella beisa.
Discussion: Included in gazella by Ansell (1972:49), whose subspecific synonymy is otherwise followed here. Restored to species status by East et al. (1999), Grubb (2000 b), and Kingdon (1997).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 718, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/AB6A4FBA464988A6B3A53F4B8CD52B4B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/7D0424863E1C3AC83A25DCC6B6850739 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231541334 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rüppell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Oryx
- Species
- beisa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oryx beisa Rüppell, 1835 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Ansell, W. F. H. 1972. Order Artiodactyla. Part 15. Pp. 1 - 84, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 2 May 1972]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- East, R., and IUCN / SSC Antelope Specialist Group (eds.) 1999. African antelope database 1988. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 434 pp.
- Grubb, P. 2000 b. Morphoclinal evolution in ungulates. Pp. 156 - 170, in Antelopes, deer, and relatives. Fossil record, behavioral ecology, systematics, and conservation (E. S. Vrba and G. B. Schaller, eds.). Yale University Press, New Haven, 341 pp.
- Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals. Nature World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, 465 pp.