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Oryx leucoryx
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Oryx leucoryx (Pallas 1777)
[Antilope] leucoryx Pallas 1777, Spicil. Zool., 12: 17.
Type Locality: "Arabiae et forte Lybiae proprium animal"; restricted to Arabia (Lydekker, 1914 b:130).
Vernacular Names: Arabian Oryx.
Distribution: Extinct in Egypt (Sinai Peninsula), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Maintained in captivity; Middle Eastern breeding stock in Bahrain, Israel, Leban, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and United Arab Emirates. Recently reintroduced to the wild in Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered.
Discussion: Included in O. gazella by Haltenorth (1963:88). Status reviewed in Mallon and Kingswood (2001).
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 719, 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/3202A989F6EAF5089B5CE734838C651B (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231541337 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Oryx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- leucoryx
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oryx leucoryx (Pallas, 1777) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Haltenorth, T. 1963. Klassifikation der Saugetiere: Artiodactyla I. Handbuch der Zoologie, 8 (32): 1 - 167.
- Mallon, D. P., and S. C. Kingswood. 2001. Antelopes. Global survey and regional action plans. Part 4: North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 260 pp.