Red-fronted Gazelle

Red-fronted Gazelle

Taxobox
status = VU



trend = down
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
subfamilia = Antilopinae
genus = "Eudorcas"
species = "E. rufifrons"
binomial = "Eudorcas rufifrons"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1846)

The Red-fronted gazelle ("Eudorcas rufifrons") is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed across the middle Africa from Senegal to north-eastern Ethiopia. It is mainly resident in the Sahel zone, a narrow cross-Africa band south of the Sahara, where it prefers arid grasslands, wooded savannas and shrubby steppes.

Some authorities (e.g. Kingdon 1997) consider that Thomson's gazelle ("E. thomsoni"), of East Africa, is a subspecies of Red-fronted gazelle. The red-fronted gazelle was formerly considered a member of the genus "Gazella" within the subgenus "Eudorcas" before "Eudorcas" was elevated to genus status.

References

Kingdon, Jonathan (1997) "The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals". Academic Press, San Diego and London. Pp. 411–413. (ISBN 0-12-408355-2)


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