Arabian ostrich

Arabian ostrich
Arabian ostrich painting from The Book of Animals by al-Jahiz.
Syria, 14th century.

Extinct (1966)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Struthioniformes
Family: Struthionidae
Genus: Struthio
Species:
Subspecies:
S. c. syriacus
Trinomial name
Struthio camelus syriacus

The Arabian ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus), Syrian ostrich, or Middle Eastern ostrich is an extinct subspecies of the ostrich that lived on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Near East until the mid-20th century.

  1. ^ BirdLife International. (2018). "Struthio camelus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T45020636A132189458. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T45020636A132189458.en. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  2. ^ Peters, J.L. (1931)

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