Endangered
Rhim gazelle
Gazella leptoceros
The rhim gazelle or rhim (from Arabic غزال الريم), also known as the slender-horned gazelle, African sand gazelle or Loder's gazelle, is a pale-coated gazelle with long slender horns and well adapted to desert life.
Appearance
The upper parts are pale buff or cream and the limbs and under parts white or pale buff. The tail is brownish-black, about 15 cm (6 in) long, and contrasts with the pale rump.
Growing to a length of 101 to 116 cm (40 to 46 in), this is the palest of the gazelles, and well adapted to desert life in many ways.
Range and habitat
It has also been reported from Niger and Chad, but these sightings seem doubtful and its precise range is unclear. The rhim gazelle is found in isolated pockets across the central Sahara Desert. The rhim gazelle is a nomadic species, moving across its desert range in search of vegetation, though it does not have a set migratory pattern.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is considered an endangered species because fewer than 2500 are left in the wild.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Rhim gazelle is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Rhim gazelle, Wikidata item Q838554. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
