Arabian oryx
Scientific name: Oryx leucoryx (Pallas, 1777)
Overview
The Arabian oryx or white oryx is a medium-sized antelope with a distinct shoulder bump, long, straight horns, and a tufted tail. It is a bovid, and the smallest member of the genus Oryx, native to desert and steppe areas of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980.
From the Wikipedia article “Arabian oryx”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China).
Common names
Also known in English as White Oryx.
Names in other languages (10)
- Arabic
- مهاة عربية
- Chinese
- 阿拉伯大羚羊
- French
- Oryx blanc, Oryx d'Arabie
- German
- Arabische Oryx, Arabischer Spießbock, Weiße Oryx, Weiße Oryx-Antilope
- Indonesian
- Kijang arab
- Japanese
- アラビアオリックス
- Persian
- تیزشاخ عربی
- Russian
- Аравийский орикс
- Spanish
- Orix de Arabia
- Turkish
- Arabistan oriksi
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q237286, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Arabian oryx”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — MathKnight, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026