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Gazella

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Description

A gazelle is any of many antelope species in the genus Gazella. This article also deals with the six species included in two further genera, Eudorcas and Nanger, which were formerly considered subgenera of Gazella. A third former subgenus, Procapra, includes three living species of Asian gazelles.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazella, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2441075	https://www.gbif.org/species/2441075
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42774	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42774

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : Gazella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : Gazella

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Ungulata
order	Artiodactyla	Owen 1848
-	Ruminantiamorpha	Spaulding et al. 2009
-	Ruminantia
-	Pecora
family	Bovidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Antilopinae	Gray 1821
tribe	Antilopini	Gray 1821
genus	Gazella	Blainville 1816

Common Name

gazelle

Scientific Name

Gazella Blainville, 1816

Name Published In

Blainville, H. M. D. de. 1816. Sur plusieurs espèces d'animaux mammifères, de l'ordre des ruminans. Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomathique de Paris 1816: 73-82.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gazella	subgenus	belongs to Cerophorus	stated without evidence	de Blainville, 1816
Gazella	genus	belongs to Bovidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Gazella	genus	belongs to Antilopini	stated with evidence	Hassanin and Douzery, 1999
Gazella	genus	belongs to Antilopini	stated without evidence	Grubb, 2001
Gazella	genus	belongs to Antilopini	stated with evidence	Hassanin and Douzery, 2003
Gazella	genus	belongs to Bovidae	stated without evidence	Theodorou et al., 2003
Gazella	genus	belongs to Antilopinae	stated without evidence	Agnarsson and May-Collado, 2008
Gazella	genus	belongs to Antilopini	stated without evidence	Gentry, 2010
Gazella	genus	belongs to Bovidae	stated with evidence	Kostopoulos, 2016
Gazella	genus	belongs to Bovidae	stated without evidence	Böhme et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (39%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

grazer, browser (based on Bovidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Bovidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Common Name(s)

Gazelles, Gazelle

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazella

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gazella albonotata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella arabica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella atlantica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Gazella bennettii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Gazella bondi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		11	5.33 Ma Miocene	1.81 Ma Pleistocene
Gazella christyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella cuvieri species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Cuvier's Gazelle	2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Gazella deperdita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella dorcas species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Dorcas Gazelle	32	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Gazella dracula ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	1.81 Ma Pleistocene
Gazella emilii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Gazella erlangeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella gazella species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Gazella isabella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella jenenschi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Gazella kohllarseni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Gazella leptoceros species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Gazella littoralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella loderi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella lydekkeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella marica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella merrilli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella muscatensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella pomeli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Gazella praegaudryi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Gazella praethomsoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		33	23.0 Ma Miocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Gazella psolea ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Gazella rufina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Gazella saudilla species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Gazella saudiya species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella setifensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Gazella spekei species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Gazella subgutturosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Gazella thomasi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Gazella tingitana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Gazella walleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gazella yarkendensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Tragomma Hodgson, 1848	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Tragomma*
Leptoceros Wagner, 1844	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Leptoceros*
Gazella Lichtenstein, 1814	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Gazella*
Trachelocele Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Trachelocele*
Gasella Smith, 1827	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Gasella*
Dorcas Gray, 1821	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Dorcas*
Tragopsis Fitzinger, 1869	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Tragopsis*
Tragops Hodgson, 1847	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Tragops*
Gazella Pallas, 1769	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : *Gazella*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1816	Gazella Blaineville
1816	Cerophorus (Gazella) de Blainville p. 74
1988	Gazella Carroll
1999	Gazella Hassanin and Douzery p. 893
2001	Gazella Grubb p. 378
2003	Gazella Hassanin and Douzery p. 212

Year	Name and Author
2003	Gazella Theodorou et al.
2008	Gazella Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Fig. 5
2010	Gazella Gentry p. 760
2016	Gazella Kostopoulos
2017	Gazella Böhme et al.
2017	Gazella Geraads

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Hassanin A., Douzery E. J. P. (1999) Evolutionary affinities of the enigmatic saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) in the context of the molecular phylogeny of Bovidae, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266, 893-900

Grubb R. (2001) Review of family-group names of living bovids, Journal of Mammalogy 82 2, 374-388

Hassanin A., Douzery E. J. P. (2003) Molecular and morphological phylogenies of Ruminantia and the alternative position of the Moschidae, Systematic Biology 52 2, 206-228

Theodorou G., Athanassiou A., et al (2003) Preliminary remarks on the Late Miocene herbivores of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, Greece), Deinsea, Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A volume in honour of Hans de Bruijn 10, 519-530

Agnarsson I., May-Collado L. J. (2008) The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: The importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48, 964-985

Gentry A. W. (2010) Bovidae, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, 747-803

Böhme M., Spassov N., et al (2017) Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe\r\n, PLoS One 12 5 doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0177347

Geraads D. (2017) Late Miocene large mammals from Mahmutgazi, Denizli province, Western Turkey, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 284 3, 241-257 doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0661

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris vol. 1816 p. 75 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Melville, R. V.; Smith, J. D. D. (eds.). (1987). Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London. 366 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 108 Suspension of rules for Gazelle 1816.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(6), 15 (1929) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 23 Action taken in Completion of the rulings given under the Plenary Powers in Opinion 108 and Opinion 109 validating the generic names Gazella Blainville, 1816, and Hippotragus Sundevall, 1846, respectively (class Mammalia).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C(C.14), 201-218 (1955) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Analyse - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hollister, 1924 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per synonymized taxon - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (supplementary record created) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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