Atlas Wild Ass

Atlas Wild Ass

Taxobox
name = "Equus africanus atlanticus"


status = EX
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Perissodactyla
familia = Equidae
genus = "Equus"
species = "E. africanus"
subspecies = "E. a. atlanticus"

The Atlas Wild Ass ("Equus africanus atlanticus"), also known as "Algerian Wild Ass" is an extinct animal. It was last shown in a villa mural in AD 300 in Bona, Algeria, and went extinct after Roman sport hunting. The Atlas Wild ass is believed to have been a herbivore.

External links

* [http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/ALWilAss.htm Algerian/Atlas Wild Ass (Asinus atlanticus)]


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