Gazella arabica

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CETARTIODACTYLA	BOVIDAE

Scientific Name:

Gazella arabica

Species Authority

(Lichtenstein, 1827)

Common Name/s:

English

–

Arabian Gazelle

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Data Deficient ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group

Evaluator/s:

Mallon, D.P. (Antelope Red List Authority) & Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment)

Justification:
The precise identity of the type (and only) specimen is unclear, as well as its relationship to others members of the genus Gazella. It is highly improbable that it represents an earlier wild population on the Farasan Islands where the specimen supposedly originated.

History:

2003	–	Extinct (IUCN 2003)
1996	–	Extinct (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This enigmatic antelope is known only from a single male specimen in the Berlin Museum, apparently collected in 1825 and attributed to the Farasan Islands in the Red Sea. However, there is some doubt as to whether the specimen in fact originated from the Farasans and its former distribution and status may never be known (Mallon and Kingswood 2001). Skull characteristics distinguish the specimen from all other gazelles. It is highly unlikely that the specimen represents a former wild population of gazelles on the Farasan Islands. The gazelles that now occur on the Farasan Islands are a subspecies of G. gazella (Thouless et al. 1991).
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Saudi Arabia

Range Description:

This enigmatic antelope is known only from a single male specimen in the Berlin Museum, apparently collected in 1825 and attributed to the Farasan Islands in the Red Sea. However, there is some doubt as to whether the specimen in fact originated from the Farasans and its former distribution and status may never be known (Mallon and Kingswood 2001). Skull characteristics distinguish the specimen from all other gazelles. It is highly unlikely that the specimen represents a former wild population of gazelles on the Farasan Islands. The gazelles that now occur on the Farasan Islands are a subspecies of G. gazella (Thouless et al. 1991).

Countries:

Regionally extinct:

Saudi Arabia

Population [top]

Population:	Extinct.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	There is no detailed information available, but this species presumably inhabited desert environments.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The reasons for the decline of this species are not known.

Major Threat(s):

The reasons for the decline of this species are not known.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Extinct.

Conservation Actions:

Extinct.

Citation:	IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group 2008. Gazella arabica. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 November 2008.
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