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Common Names
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Common Names in Dutch:
Mendes-Antilope;addax
Common Names in English:
Addax, Addax Rafinesque, 1815
Common Names in French:
Addax, Addax à Nez Tacheté, Antilope Blanche
Common Names in Russian:
Мендес
Description
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Physical Description
Size/Age/Growth
Body Length: 110-130 cm / 3.6-4.3 ft . Shoulder Height: 95-115 cm / 3.1-3.8 ft. Tail Length: 25-35 cm / 10-14 in. Weight: 60-125 kg / 132-275 lb .
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: Prefers sandy deserts and is adapted to life in hyperarid areas. Feeds
on scanty vegetation in interdunal depressions
. Highly mobile
and moves long distances
to exploit
ephemeral
plant growth following rainfall, which it can sense at great distances.[1]
List of Habitats
:2.1Savanna - Dry
4.5Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
8.1Desert - Hot
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Mammalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Mammals
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
()
- (Rowe, 1988) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
()
- (Wible Et Al., 1995) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Legion:
Cladotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Supercohort:
Theria
()
- (Parker & Haswell, 1897) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Cohort:
Placentalia
()
- (Owen, 1837) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna, in Stucky & Mckenna, in Benton, Ed., 1993
- Grandorder:
Ungulata
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1766) Mckenna, 1975
- Mirorder:
Eparctocyona
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Order:
Artiodactyla
()
- Owen, 1848
- Even-Toed Ungulates
- Suborder:
Ruminantia
()
- Scopoli, 1777
- Superfamily:
Bovoidea
()
- (Gray, 1821) Simpson, 1931
- Family:
Bovidae
()
- Gray, 1821
- Subfamily:
Hippotraginae
()
- Tribe:
Hippotragini
()
- Genus:
Addax
()
- Laurillard, in d'Orbigny, 1841
- Specific name:
Addax
- (de Blainville, 1816)
- Scientific name: - Addax nasomaculatus (de Blainville, 1816)
- Specific name:
Addax
- (de Blainville, 1816)
- Genus:
Addax
(
- Tribe:
Hippotragini
(
- Subfamily:
Hippotraginae
(
- Family:
Bovidae
(
- Superfamily:
Bovoidea
(
- Suborder:
Ruminantia
(
- Order:
Artiodactyla
(
- Mirorder:
Eparctocyona
(
- Grandorder:
Ungulata
(
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
(
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
(
- Cohort:
Placentalia
(
- Supercohort:
Theria
(
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
(
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
(
- Legion:
Cladotheria
(
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
(
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
(
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
(
- Class:
Mammalia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 22-Apr-2004
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Addax
There are approximately 2 species in this genus:
A. nasomaculata · A. nasomaculatus (Addax Rafinesque)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Annals and magazine of natural history: including zoology, botany and geology London. url p. 217, p. 232.
- Archiv fr Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 33, p. 60.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Brehm's Life of animals: a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. by Alfred Edmund Brehm; copiously illustrated with wood cuts and color-plates by Fr. Specht [et al]; translated from the third German editi Chicago: Marquis, 1895. ENG url p. 500.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 55.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 541, p. 566.
- Catalogue of the bones of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum / [compiled by Edward Gerrard]. London: printed by Taylor and Francis, by order of the Trustees, 1862 ENG url p. 240.
- Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History) by R. Lydekker. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1913-1916. ENG url p. 129, p. 146, p. 147, p. 148, p. 202, p. 264, p. 28.
- Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. ENG url p. 384, p. 384.
- Claro, F. 2003. Observations of addax and other ungulates in Termit area in October-November 2002. Gnusletter 22(2): 16.
- East, R. (compiler) 1999. African Antelope Database 1998. IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group.
- Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage / by Richard Hesse prepared by W. C. Allee and Karl P. Schmidt New York: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1937. ENG url p. 557.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Handwrterbuch der Zoologie. Unter Mitwirkung von Prof. Dr. von Dalla Torre, bearb. von Dr. Friedrich Knauer. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1887. GER url p. 12.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 400.
- Mallon, D.P. and Kingswood, S.C. (compilers). 2001. Antelopes. Part 4: North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Global Survey and Regional Action Plans. SSC Antelope Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Monfort, S.L., Newby, J., Wacher, T., Tubiana, J. and Moksia, D. 2004. Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group Wildlife Surveys. Part 1: Central and Western Chad (September-October 2001). ZSL Conservation Report No. 1. Zoological Society of London. iii+54 pp.
- Newby, J. 2003. Sahelo-Saharan antelopes 2003 status report. Gnusletter 22(1): 2-3.
- Newby, J., Wacher, T. J., Monfort, S.L., Dixon, A.M. and Houston, W. 2004. Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group wildlife surveys. Part 2. Central and South–Eastern Niger (February–March 2002). ZSL Conservation Report No. 2. Zoological Society of London. iii+61pp.
- Peter Grubb: Status: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Endangered
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 573, p. 577, p. 589.
- Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.
- The animal kingdom; based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and others / edited by Hugh Craig. New York: Johnson & Bailey, 1897. ENG url p. 796.
- The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai) / Dale J. Osborn, Ibrahim Helmy. [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. ENG url p. 482, p. 483, p. 566, p. ix.
- Wacher., T., Newby, J., Houston, W., Spevak E., Barmou, M. and Issa A. 2005. Sahelo–Saharan Interest Group Wildlife Surveys. Tin Toumma & Termit (February–March 2004). ZSL Conservation Report No.5. London: The Zoological Society of London.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Newby, J. & Wacher, T. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- Israel Nature and Parks Authority
- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
- Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2478913
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-625175
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13804758
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 625175
- IUCN ID: 512
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1400
Footnotes
- Newby, J. & Wacher, T. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
