Barbary sheep

(Ammotragus lervia)

Range: Across the Sahara and the Atlas Mountains

Subspecies

• A. l. lervia: Atlas Mountains range in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia

• A. l. sahariensis: Western Sahara, southern Algeria and Libya, northwestern Mauritania, and northern parts of Mali, Niger, and Chad 

• A. l. fassini: Northwestern Libya and southern Tunisia

• A. l. blainei: Southeastern Libya, northeastern Chad, and eastern Sudan

• A. l. angusi: Aïr and Termit Massifs in Niger 

• A. l. ornata: Eastern Egypt (Extinct in the wild)