Goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa)

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Also known as:	Saudi goitered gazelle, Arabian sand gazelle, Persian gazelle, Sand gazelle, Rheem 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).