Syrian Wild Ass

Syrian Wild Ass

Taxobox
name = Syrian Wild Ass
status = EX
extinct = 1928


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Syrian Wild Ass in London Zoo, 1872.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Perissodactyla
familia = Equidae
genus = "Equus"
subgenus = "Asinus"
species = "E. hemionus"
subspecies = "E. h. hemippus"
trinomial = "Equus hemionus hemippus"
trinomial_authority = Geoffroy, 1855

The Syrian Wild Ass ("Equus hemionus hemippus") was a wild ass found in the mountains and desert/steppe of Syria. The last one died at Schönbrunn Zoo, 1928.

ee also

*Equidae
*Onager

References

*Syrian Wild Ass (Asinus hemionus hemionus) [http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/extinctm/SyWilAss.htm]


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