Goitered gazelle  (Gazella subgutturosa)

Facts

Also known as:Sand gazelle, Arabian sand gazelle, Saudi goitered gazelle, Rheem gazelle and Persian gazelle
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Family Bovidae
Genus Gazella (1)
Size Head-and-body length: 90 - 126 cm
Shoulder height: 56 - 80 cm
Tail length: 10 - 23 cm
Male weight: 22 – 40 kg
Female weight: 18 - 33 kg (2)(3)(4)(5)

Status

Classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List (1) and listed under Appendix II of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) (6). One subspecies is listed on the IUCN Red List: the Arabian sand gazelle (G. s. marica) is classified as Vulnerable (VU) (1). Several other subspecies have been listed based on morphological characteristics, but most have not been verified by genetic analysis, and are not listed individually on the IUCN Red List (1). Nevertheless, the following subspecies are all considered Vulnerable: Hillier's goitered gazelles or Mongolian gazelles (G. s. hillieriana), Yarkand or Xingjian goitered gazelles (G. s. yarkandensis) and the Persian gazelles (G. s. subgutturosa) (7) (8).