Oryx dammah (Cretzschmar, 1826)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 413

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scientific name	Oryx dammah (Cretzschmar, 1826)
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Oryx dammah (Cretzschmar, 1826) View in CoL . In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugheth., 1:22.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Haraza, "probably Kordofan."

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Western Sahara and Tunisia to Egypt; Mauritania to Sudan; survives only in Chad.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: algazel , ensicornis, nubica, senegalensis, tao.

COMMENTS: Includes tao; see Ansell (1972:48). The name algazel Oken, 1816 , was declared invalid by Opinion 417 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1956b).