page_title: List of mammals of Mauritania
section_title: Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Mauritania / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
caption_attribution_description: Damaliscus lunatusEnglish: Tsessebe, Okavango, Botswana
context_page_description: This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Mauritania. Of the mammal species in Mauritania, three are critically endangered, nine are vulnerable, and one is near threatened. One of the species listed for Mauritania can no longer be found in the wild.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
  Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories:
context_section_description: The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans.
  Family: Suidae (pigs)
  Subfamily: Phacochoerinae
  Genus: Phacochoerus
  Common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus LR/lc
  Family: Hippopotamidae (hippopotamuses)
  Genus: Hippopotamus
  Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius VU
  Family: Giraffidae (giraffe, okapi)
  Genus: Giraffa
  West African giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis peralta EN
  Family: Bovidae (cattle, antelope, sheep, goats)
  Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
  Genus: Damaliscus
  Topi, Damaliscus lunatus LR/cd
  Subfamily: Antilopinae
  Genus: Gazella
  Dama gazelle, Gazella dama CR
  Dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas VU
  Red-fronted gazelle, Gazella rufifrons VU
  Subfamily: Bovinae
  Genus: Tragelaphus
  Bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus LR/lc
  Subfamily: Caprinae
  Genus: Ammotragus
  Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia VU
  Subfamily: Hippotraginae
  Genus: Addax
  Addax, Addax nasomaculatus CR
  Genus: Hippotragus
  Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus LR/cd
  Genus: Oryx
  Scimitar oryx, Oryx dammah EW
  Subfamily: Reduncinae
  Genus: Kobus
  Kob, Kobus kob LR/cd
  Genus: Redunca
  Bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca LR/cd
caption: Topi
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