Gemsbok | |
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Male, Etosha Naitional Pairk, Namibie | |
Conservation status
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Faimily: | Bovidae |
Subfaimily: | Hippotraginae |
Genus: | Oryx |
Species: | O. gazella |
Binomial name | |
Oryx gazella (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Gemsbok's naitural range.[2] | |
Synonyms | |
Capra gazella Linnaeus, 1758 |
The gemsbok or gemsbuck (Oryx gazella) is a muckle antelope in the Oryx genus. It is hamelt in the arid regions o Soothren Africae, sic as the Kalahari Desert. Some authorities umwhile includit the East African oryx as a subspecies. The current gemsbok population in Sooth Africae is estimatit at 373,000 specimens.[3]
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(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as Least concern.
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ignored (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Dounlaidit on 14 Julie 2015.