Addax nasomaculatus

(de Blainville, 1816)

Addax

Side view of head and shoulders of adult and young
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Location:USA, CA, San Diego Co., San Diego ZooDate taken:Jan 1, 1975

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 614

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Pecora
Superfamily : Bovoidea
Family : Bovidae
Subfamily : Antilopinae
Tribe : Hippotragini
Genus : Addax

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Blainville, H.-M.D. de. 1816. Sur plusieurs espèces d'animaux mammifères, de l'ordre des ruminans. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société philomatique de Paris (1814-1824) 1816:73-82.

Original name as described

Antilope Nasomaculata

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:639d

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

no type locality given. Restricted by R. Lydekker in 1914 to "Senegambia." Further restricted by P. Grubb in 2005 to "Tunisian Sahara."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Afrotropic

Country distribution

Mauritania · Niger · Chad

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 14 names and synonyms.

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