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- Класс: Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 = Млекопитающие
- Инфракласс: Eutheria, Placentalia Gill, 1872 = Плацентарные, высшие звери
- Надотряд: Ungulata = Копытные
- Отряд: Artiodactyla Owen, 1848 = Парнокопытные, парнопалые
- Подотряд: Ruminantia Scopoli, 1777 = Жвачные
- Семейство: Bovidae (Cavicornia) Gray, 1821 = Полорогие
- Род: Gazella Blainville, 1816 = (Собственно) газели
- Вид: Gazella soemmeringi Cretzschmar = Сомалийская [абиссинская] газель
Сомалийская [абиссинская] газель = Gazella soemmeringi Cretzschmar
Soemmering’s gazelle (Gazella soemmeringi soemmeringi) Other endemic subspecies
G. s. berberana (black face, longer horns)
G. s. butteri (dark flank, thigh stripes)
Description Total length: 125 — 150 cm Tail length: 18 — 23 cm Shoulder height: 81 — 90 cm Weight: 38 — 46 kg
A large, generally pale gazelle with extensive white on the rump, strongly marked facial blazes, a large head and heavy, short, backwardly swept horns that form a lyrate shape with in-pointed hooked tips. It is long in the leg, with big hooves and a relatively short neck. The tail, like that of other Nanger gazelles, is short and tapered, with a mainly white fringe of short hairs.
Source:
Jonathan Kingdon: The Kingdon Field Guide To African Mammals, Academic Press, San Diego, 1997
Distribution
G. s. berberana: Somalia, E Ethiopia (Ogaden), Djibouti; (black face, longer horns, largest race)
G. s. butteri: S Ethiopia; (dark flank, thigh stripes, smallest race)
G. s. soemmeringi: N Ethiopia; (brown face, shorter horns), (Sudan: former distribution)
Ecology
The Soemmering’s gazelle inhabits dry bush and acacia scrub in the hilly country, also found on the plain, apparently undergoing seasonal migration. It lives in groups of 5 — 20 individuals in the bush or steppe.
Conservation Status
Exterminated over the greater part of their range these gazelles now exist in numerous small pockets. Although hunting may have played a significant part in this decline, overgrazing and habitat degradation by domestic stock is probably the main cause. Listed as threatened (IUCN).
IUCN status (1996): vulnerable (VU C1)
Trend: decreasing. But there is no current data available for many regions
European Collection Plan (2003): …
RCP status: …