Speke's Gazelle

Speke's Gazelle

Taxobox
name = Speke's Gazelle


image_caption = At the San Diego Zoo
status = EN
trend = up
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
subfamilia = Antilopinae
genus = "Gazella"
species = "G. spekei"
binomial = "Gazella spekei"
binomial_authority = Blyth, 1863

Speke's Gazelle ("Gazella spekei") is the smallest of the gazelle species. Partially sympatric with "G. gazella pelzini", it is confined to the horn of Africa where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semi deserts (Kingdom 1982, 1997). This species has been sometimes regarded as a subspecies of "G. gazella" though this is now widely disregarded (Groves 1969). Severe habitat fragmentation means it is now impossible to assess the natural migratory or nomadic patterns of "G. spekei". (East 1996). It's numbers are under threat and despite an increase in population it was announced by the IUCN in 2007 that its status had risen from vulnerable to endangered. Captive population is maintained, and the wild population exists in the lower ten thousands.

References

* Listed as Endangered (EN C1 v2.3)


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