Description
Antilope saïga
Date 1872
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Schlegel, De dierentuin van het Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam, p. 100
Old Latin name Antilope saïga
New Latin name Saiga tatarica
Common name Nederlands: Saïga-antilope
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antilope_sa%C3%AFga_-_1872_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ21400239.tif

The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) is an antelope that originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia. The scientific name of the saiga is Saiga tatarica. It is the sole extant member of its genus and is classified under the family Bovidae.