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Oryxes
Oryx
Oryx is a genus consisting of four large antelope species called oryxes. Three of them are native to arid parts of Africa, and the fourth to the Arabian Peninsula. Their fur is pale with contrasting dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight. The exception is the scimitar oryx, which lacks dark markings on the legs, only has faint dark markings on the head, has an ochre neck,...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Gemsbok
speciesOryx gazella
East African Oryx
speciesOryx beisa
Scimitar-horned Oryx
speciesOryx dammah
Arabian Oryx
speciesOryx leucoryx
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.574
Garden of Health
1507 · p.468
Garden of Health
1507 · p.442
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.537
History of All Cloven-Hoofed Quadrupeds
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1621 · p.787
Georg Wolfgang Knorr — Deliciae naturae selectae (1771)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr · 1771 · p.329
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 42307.