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The Sudan cheetah〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Murray Wrobel )〕 (''Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii'') is a cheetah subspecies from Central and Northeast Africa. It lives in fragmented areas of the Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and the Central African Republic. It is also commonly known as Somali cheetah,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://qatarsustainability.com/exhibitor_pdfs/files/Al%20Wabra%20Brochure.pdf )〕 Northeast African cheetah or Central African cheetah. Once widespread throughout central to northeast Africa, it was driven to extinction in Cameroon, Nigeria and Egypt. In the 1970s, the Sudan cheetah population of the Northeast region was estimated at 1,150 to 4,500 individuals. Since 2002, it is classified as Vulnerable by IUCN, due to low densities, habitat loss and being smuggled from the Horn of Africa to the Middle East, and the Sudan cheetah population has been estimated at fewer than 2,000 cheetahs in the wild.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ielc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=658823&sid=5456882 )〕 The population is still increasing slowly due to conservation efforts and breeding programs in Europe and the Middle East. Once thought to be genetically identical to other Sub-Saharan cheetahs, it has been revealed that the Sudan cheetah is a distinct subspecies after being separated from their Southern African relative between 16,000 and 72,000 years ago. ==Taxonomy== In 1855, the Austrian zoologist Leopold Fitzinger proposed the trinomen ''Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii'' for the cheetah subspecies living in Northeast and Central Africa, naming the species after German physicist Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring. The subspecies may also be respectively known as "Soemmerring's cheetah". Following Fitzinger's trinomen, other zoologists proposed two more trinomen for the Northern cheetah (''Acinonyx jubatus megabalica'' and ''Acinonyx jubatus wagneri''), however, they were nominated as different subspecies living in specific areas of Sudan. They are not recognized as subspecies, therefore are considered as synonyms for the Sudan cheetah (''Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sudan cheetah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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