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Goitered gazelle | |
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Male of the Persian subspecies (G. s. subgutturosa) at Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki | |
Female goitered gazelle at the Shirvan National Park, Azerbaijan | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Antilopinae |
Tribe: | Antilopini |
Genus: | Gazella |
Species: | G. subgutturosa
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Binomial name | |
Gazella subgutturosa (Güldenstädt, 1780)
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Subspecies | |
The goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) or black-tailed gazelle is a gazelle native to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in northwestern China and Mongolia.[1] The specific name, meaning "full below the throat", refers to the male having an enlargement of the neck and throat during the mating season.