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 Capra nubiana F. Cuvier 1825 Capra nubiana F. Cuvier 1825 , in: E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammiferes, Vol. 6, part 50: "Bouc sauvage de la Haute-Egypte", p. 2, pl. 397 . Type Locality: Egypt , "de la Haute-Égypte … ou de Nubie"; Nubia ( Lydekker, 1913:153 ; G. M. Allen, 1939:549 ) or Upper Egypt ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:407 ), which are virtually synonymous; here restricted to Sudan , Northern Prov., Nubian Desert, east of Nile River. Vernacular Names: Nubian Ibex . Distribution: Egypt east of the Nile, N Eritrea , Israel , W Jordan , Lebanon (extinct), SE Oman , Saudi Arabia , NE Sudan , Syria (extinct; no archaeological records), and SE Yemen . Conservation: IUCN – Endangered. Discussion: Treated as a species distinct from C. ibex by Uerpmann (1987) .