Order Artiodactyla
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
637
722
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Addax nasomaculatus
(de Blainville 1816)
[Cerophorus] nasomaculata
de Blainville 1816
,
Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816: 75
.
Type Locality:
No locality given. Here selected as the Tunisian Sahara.
Vernacular Names:
Addax
.
Distribution:
Extinct in
Algeria
,
Egypt
,
Libya
,
Morocco
,
Tunisia
, and probably
Sudan
. Vagrants still enter
Algeria
and
Sudan
. Survives in
Chad
, N
Mali
,
Mauritania
, and
Niger
.
Conservation:
Nearly extinct in wild (
East, 1990
).
CITES
– Appendix I;
U.S.
ESA
– Proposed Endangered;
IUCN
– Critically Endangered.
Discussion:
The
syntypes
were observed by de Blainville in Bullock's Pantherion or Museum and the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, both in London,
UK
. C. H.
Smith (1827)
suggested the specimens came from
Guinea
or Western Africa; Lydekker (1914
b
:148) stated that the type locality was probably Senegambia. These authors provided no evidence to support their conclusions and from the discussion in Sclater and Thomas (1898), it seems more probable that British hunters or collectors obtained
Addax
from the Tunisian Sahara, to which the type locality is here restricted.