Addax nasomaculatus

The addax is an antelope from northern Africa and the Middle East. Currently, it only lives in small pockets of Africa, with some populations having been reintroduced. It is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List.https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/512/50180603
== Scientific Name ==
It's first scientific name appears to have been Cerophorus nasomasculata, from "de Blainville" in 1816.https://academic.oup.com/mspecies/article/doi/10.1644/807.1/2600200?login=falsehttps://www.gbif.org/species/2441101 I'm not really sure of any of these, these are just wild mass guessing. "Cero" possibly from Latin, meaning to smear or coat with waxhttps://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=cero&oldid=70526561 and "phorus" being an Ancient Greek suffic meaning something like "to bring, to bare, to show".https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=-phorus&oldid=69497033 A man named Otto in Venice in 1825 got a specimen from Alexandria and named it Antilope suturosa. Antilope being obvious, sutur coming from Latin's sutura, or "sewing", perhaps combined with rosa, which is also obvious. This was changed to Antilope addax by Cretzschmar a year later. Another year later Antilope mytilopes was formed by Hamilton-Smith, and also Oryx addax.
== Bible ==
In Deuteronomy 14:5 several cloven hoofed, cud eating creatures are listed as kosher. One of those, written as "דישון" (or variants thereof),https://biblehub.com/ale/deuteronomy/14.htmhttps://biblehub.com/hebrew/1788.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pygarg&oldid=1091839595 transliterated in various forms to approximate "dishon", which is retranslated in Greek as "white rumped" (or actually, "rump white"). It took a little, but I don't think dishon translates directly as white rumped. Rather the Greeks already knew of an animal, a sort of antelope, and called it puga-argoshttp://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pugargos&la=greek. It is also found in other Greek stories.http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/wordfreq?lang=greek&lookup=pu%2Fgargos
The Hebrew Wikipedia seems to confirm this as they also use "דישון" as addax. https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99&oldid=35005365 However, it's also a word for a kind of fertilizer. Their wiktionary (but not ours) also lists it as well.https://he.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9F&oldid=430366 But man I tell you what, Bing cannot translate Hebrew like it can other languages. I cannot use that as a reliable translator. But even on the translated page itself, they are not sure if the original word referred to the addax or not, even while using it for addax.
== References ==
Category:Addaxes
Category:Animals of The Bible