Capra nubiana F. Cuvier, 1825

99. Nubian Ibex, Capra nubiana F. Cuvier, 1825 View in CoL

(IUCN Red List: VU)

Distribution: Confined to Golan Heights ( Fig. 108 View FIGURE 108 ).

Previous records: Labter Hills (Jabal Al-Abtar) southwest of Palmyra ( Maydon 1930), a specimen obtained from east of Al-Qaryatein in the collection of the British Museum of Natural History ( Harrison 1968). It was also reported in the Jabal ash-Sharqi mountain ranges north of Damascus which run southwest-northeast, as far as Halab (Aleppo) and to just south of Tadmur (Palmyra), presumably in the Jabal al Khunayzir by Shackleton (1997) based on ( Harrison 1968). However, the latter didn’t mention these sites where the species records remain unsubstainational.

Remarks: Nubian Ibex was considered as a subspecies of the ( Capra ibex nubiana Linnaeus, 1758 ) but is now considered as a distinct species ( Grubb 2005). The species might be extinct in Syria by the end of the 1950s; however, it was reintroduced into the Golan Heights in 1970 ( Shackleton 1997).