96. Mountain Gazelle, Gazella gazella (Pallas, 1766)

(IUCN Red List: EN)

Subspecies: G. g. gazella (Pallas, 1766) .

Distribution: Uncertain status, apparently rare; confined to the mountainous habitat in northwest and southwest of Syria (Fig. 105).

Previous records: Khneiz (Misonne 1957); Jabal Druze (Houran mount) (Groves & Lay 1985), and Mount Hermon (Evans 1994).

Remarks: This species may still exist in southwestern Syria (see Evans 1994). Unverified record of a hunted G. gazella was reported south of Hadar in 1991. It is worth mentioning that this species still occurs in Hatay Province (Iskenderun) in eastern Turkey (see Çoğala & Sözenb 2017) which may have occurred in northwestern Syria in the past.