Arabian Gazelle

Arabian Gazelle

Taxobox | name = Arabian Gazelle
status = EX
status_system = iucn3.1
extinct = 1825
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
subfamilia = Antilopinae
genus = "Gazella"
species = "G. arabica"
binomial = "Gazella arabica"
The Arabian gazelle "(Gazella arabica)" was an elusive gazelle that was hunted to extinction in its Middle Eastern homeland, Saudi Arabia. It is only known from a single specimen collected on the Farasan Islands in the Red Sea in 1825. Since the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species this species is included as extinct by its Antelope Specialist Group.IUCN2006|assessors=Mallon, D.P. (Antelope Specialist Group)|year=2003|id=8981|title=Gazella arabica|downloaded=29 December 2006]

References

ee also

*List of extinct mammals
*List of extinct animals of Asia

External links

* [http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/arabiangazelle.htm The Extinction Website - Species Info - Arabian Gazelle]


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