Red-fronted gazelle
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| Red-fronted gazelle | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Antilopinae |
| Genus: | Eudorcas |
| Species: | E. rufifrons |
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| Eudorcas rufifrons (Gray, 1846) |
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The Red-fronted gazelle (Eudorcas rufifrons) is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed across the middle Africa from Senegal to north-eastern Ethiopia. It is mainly resident in the Sahel zone, a narrow cross-Africa band south of the Sahara, where it prefers arid grasslands, wooded savannas and shrubby steppes.
Some authorities (e.g. Kingdon 1997) consider that Thomson's gazelle (E. thomsoni), of East Africa, is a subspecies of Red-fronted gazelle. The red-fronted gazelle was formerly considered a member of the genus Gazella within the subgenus Eudorcas before Eudorcas was elevated to genus status.
[edit] Subspecies
- Gazella rufifrons centralis Eastern Chad red-fronted gazelle
- Gazella rufifrons hasleri North Nigeria Red-fronted gazelle
- Gazella rufifrons kanuri Kanuri Red-fronted Gazelle
- Gazella rufifrons laevipes Nubian Red-fronted gazelle
- Gazella rufifrons rufifrons Senegal Red-fronted gazelle
[edit] References
- ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2008). "Eudorcas rufifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/8973. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- Kingdon, Jonathan (1997) The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press, San Diego and London. Pp. 411–413. (ISBN 0-12-408355-2)
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