Baja California Pronghorn
- Baja California Pronghorn
Taxobox
name = Baja California Pronghorn
status = CR
status_system = IUCN2.3
status_ref = [IUCN2006 | assessors=Antelope Specialist Group | year=1996 | id=1679 | title=Antilocapra americana "ssp." peninsularis | downloaded=2008-08-13]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
subordo = Ruminantia
infraordo = Pecora
familia = Antilocapridae
genus = "Antilocapra"
species = "A. americana"
subspecies = "A. a. peninsularis"
trinomial = "Antilocapra americana peninsularis"
trinomial_authority = Nelson, 1912
The Baja California Pronghorn or Peninsular Pronghorn ("Antilocapra americana peninsularis") is a critically endangered pronghorn, endemic to Mexico. The wild population is estimated at 200.
References
External links
* [http://www.lazoo.org/animals/mammals/peninsularpronghorn/ Peninsular Pronghorn facts and video] at the [http://www.lazoo.org/ Los Angeles Zoo official site]
* [http://www.lazoo.org/conservation/pronghorn102306.html Plight of the Pronghorn]
* [http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-pronghorn.html San Diego Zoo's Animal Bites: Pronghorn]
* [http://www.eol.org/taxa/17289948 Peninsular Pronghorn at the Encyclopedia of Life]
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