Mongolian gazelle

Mongolian gazelle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Genus: Procapra
Species:
P. gutturosa
Binomial name
Procapra gutturosa
(Pallas, 1777)
Synonyms
  • Antilope gutturosa Pallas, 1777 o
  • Procapra gutturosa gutturosa Pallas, 1777
  • Procapra altaica Hollister, 1913
  • Procapra gutturosa altaica Hollister, 1913
  • Gazella mongolica Heude, 1894

The Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), or dzeren (Russian: дзерен), is a medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, southern Siberia and northern China. The name dzeren is the Russian spelling and pronunciation of the Buryat zeeren (Buryat: зээрэн; akin to the Mongolian word zeer (Mongolian: зээр)).