Capra nubiana F. Cuvier 1825
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Guido |
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Capra nubiana F. Cuvier 1825 |
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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).
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