Gazella bennettii

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: Inhabits arid areas, including sand deserts, flat plains and hills , dry scrub and light forest . Ranges to 1,500 m in Pakistan (Habibi 2001b). They are facultative drinkers, and so can live in very arid areas. They sometimes raid fields cultivated with rape seed and sorghum in desert regions (Habibi 2001b).[1].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.1     Desert - Hot   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 22-Apr-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Gazella

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 39 species and subspecies in this genus:

G. arabica (Arabian Gazelle) · G. bennettii (Indian Gazelle) · G. bilkis (Queen of Sheba's Gazelle) · G. cuvieri (Cuvier's Mountain Gazelle) · G. dama (Addra Gazelle) · G. dama dama (Dama Gazelle) · G. dama mhorr (Addra Gazelle) · G. dama ruficollis (Addra Gazelle) · G. dorcas (Dorcas Gazelle) · G. dorcas dorcas (Dorcas Gazelle) · G. dorcas neglecta (Dorcas Gazelle) · G. dorcas pelzelni (Dorcas Gazelle) · G. gazella (Palastine Mountain Gazelle) · G. gazella acaciae (Acacia Gazelle) · G. gazella arabica (Arabian Gazelle) · G. gazella cora (Arabian Mountain Gazelle) · G. gazella dorcas (Dorcas Gazelle) · G. gazella farasani (Farasan Gazelle) · G. gazella gazella (Arabian Gazelle) · G. gazella muscatensis (Muscat Gazelle) · G. granti (Grant's Gazelle) · G. granti granti (Grant's Gazelle) · G. granti raineyi (Grant's Gazelle) · G. leptoceros (Slender-Horned Gazelle) · G. leptoceros leptoceros (Slender-Horned Gazelle) · G. rufifrons (Gazelles) · G. rufifrons laevipes (Heuglin's Gazelle) · G. rufifrons tilonura (Heuglin's Gazelle) · G. rufina (Red Gazelle) · G. saudiya (Saudi Arabian Gazelle) · G. soemmerringii (Sömmerring's Gazelle) · G. soemmerringii soemmerringii (Soemmerring's Gazelle) · G. spekei (Gazelles) · G. subgutturosa (Arabian Sand Gazelle) · G. subgutturosa marica (Arabian Goitered Gazelle) · G. subgutturosa subgutturosa (Goitered Gazelle) · G. thomsonii (Thompson's Gazelle) · G. thomsonii albonotata (Mongalla Gazelle) · G. thomsonii thomsonii (Thomson's Gazelle)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. London, Printed by J. & H. Cox, 1851. url p. 166.
• Catalogue of the heads and horns of Indian big game bequeathed by A. O. Hume. .. to the British Museum (Natural History). London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1913. url .
• Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History) by R. Lydekker. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1913-16. url p. 271, p. 51.
• Large game shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, and northern India / by Colonel Kinloch. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and co.; 1885. url .
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 17.
• Revised list of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological society of London. 1872. London, Printed for the Society, [1872] url p. 92.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 168.
• Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies. Calcutta: s.n., 1872-1899. url p. 372.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url , p. 125, p. 126, p. 127.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 260, p. 310, p. 372, p. 410, p. 534, p. 60, p. 758.
• The mammals of India: a natural history of all the animals known to inhabit continental India / Roorkee: Printed for the author by the Thomason college press, 1867. url .
• The mammals of India; a natural history of all the animals known to inhabit continental India. London, J. Wheldon, 1874. url p. 279, p. 279, p. 281, p. 281.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London: [The Society], 1879- url p. 428.
• Wanderings of a naturalist in India: the western Himalayas, and Cashmere / Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1867. url .

Notes

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.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Mallon, D.P. 2003. Gazella bennettii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Mallon, D.P. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Mallon, D.P. 2008. Gazella bennettii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 106296
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-625088
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 625088
• IUCN ID: 210818
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 598

Footnotes

1. Mallon, D.P. 2008. Gazella bennettii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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