Gazella de Blainville 1816
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Gazella

description: Gazella de Blainville 1816
Gazella de Blainville 1816, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816: 75.
Type Species: Capra dorcas Linnaeus 1758
Species and subspecies: 10 species with 26 subspecies:
Species Gazella arabica Lichtenstein 1827
Subspecies Gazella arabica subsp. arabica Lichtenstein 1827
Subspecies Gazella arabica subsp. bilkis Groves and Lay 1985
Species Gazella bennettii Sykes 1831
Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. bennettii Sykes 1831
Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. christii Blyth 1842
Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. fuscifrons Blanford 1873
Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. karamii Groves 1993
Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. salinarum Groves 2003
Subspecies Gazella bennettii subsp. shikarii Groves 1993
Species Gazella cuvieri Ogilby 1840
Species Gazella dorcas (Linnaeus 1758)
Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. dorcas Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. beccarii De Beaux 1931
Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. isabella Gray 1846
Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. massaesyla Cabrera 1928
Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. osiris Blaine 1913
Subspecies Gazella dorcas subsp. pelzelnii Kohl 1886
Species Gazella erlangeri Neumann 1906
Species Gazella gazella (Pallas 1766)
Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. gazella Pallas 1766
Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. acaciae Mendelssohn, Groves and Shalmon 1997
Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. cora C. H. Smith 1827
Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. darehshourii Karami and Groves 1993
Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. farasani Thoulless and Al Basari 1991
Subspecies Gazella gazella subsp. muscatensis Brooke 1874
Species Gazella leptoceros F. Cuvier 1842
Subspecies Gazella leptoceros subsp. leptoceros F. Cuvier 1842
Subspecies Gazella leptoceros subsp. loderi Thomas 1894
Species Gazella saudiya Carruthers and Schwarz 1935
Species Gazella spekei Blyth 1863
Species Gazella subgutturosa (Guldenstaedt 1778)
Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. subgutturosa Guldenstaedt 1778
Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. hillieriana Heude 1894
Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. marica Thomas 1897
Subspecies Gazella subgutturosa subsp. yarkandensis Blanford 1875
Discussion: Revised by Groves (1969 a), who recognised Trachelocele as a subgenus for G. subgutturosa only. Since then, Eudorcas has been revived (Groves, 2000 b) and G. cuvieri, G. leptoceros, and G. subgutturosa have been recognised as a clade (G. subgutturosa group) distinct from G. dorcas and G. erlangeri in sharing 11 unique centric fusions of the autosomes (Vassart et al. 1995) and having similar mitochondrial genes (Rebholz and Harley, 1999). Trachelocele may seem redundant but Gazella may be paraphyletic, as the subgutturosa group could be a sister taxon of Antilope, sharing two unique centric fusions (Vassart et al. 1995), suggesting the possible need to revive Trachelocele. The other species of Gazella may be divided into two groups. In the dorcas group, G. dorcas and G. erlangeri share 9 unique homologous centric fusions, G. spekei is similar to them in the low number of chromosomes; G. arabica and G. gazella should probably be included: a group including G. dorcas, G. gazella and G. spekei is supported, if weakly, by studies of mitochondrial DNA sequences (Rebholz and Harley, 1999). In the bennettii group, G. bennettii and G. saudiya share up to 6 unique homologous centric fusions, with some fission/fusion polymorphism, and are said to be genetically closer to the subgutturosa group than the dorcas group (Kumamoto et al., 1995; Rebholz and Harley, 1999). Status of Palaearctic and Indian species reviewed by Mallon and Kingswood (2001).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 679, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519