Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > Bovidae > Oryx > Oryx dammah| | Oryx dammah (scimitar-horned oryx) | |
The scimitar oryx, or scimitar-Horned oryx, (Oryx dammah); also known as Sahara Oryx is a species of oryx which formerly inhabited the whole of North Africa. It has been classified as extinct in the wild by the IUCN. |
Status: Extinct in the wild View IUCN Record: Oryx dammah |
| Adult Weight [1] | 391.32 lbs (177.50 kg) | | Birth Weight [1] | 22.75 lbs (10.32 kg) |  | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year 9 months | | | Gestation [1] | 8 months 7 days | | Litter Size [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 28 years | | Migration [2] | Intracontinental |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands |
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South Saharan steppe and woodlands |
Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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West Saharan montane xeric woodlands |
Algeria, Niger, Mali, Mauritania |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
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MapsLink to MapAfrica; Species recognized by Grubb P., 22-Apr-2004, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in  Endangered Status provided by IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2 < www.iucnredlist.org> Downloaded on 11 April 2013. Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinderRange map provided by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Conservation International & NatureServe. |
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