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title: "Saiga"
description: "Saiga tatarica — Mamíferos. The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica, ) or saiga is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/saiga
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Saiga

> Saiga tatarica — Mamíferos. The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica, ) or saiga is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast.

- Scientific name: *Saiga tatarica*
- Category: `mammals` (Mamíferos)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Campos e prados)
- iNaturalist observations: 653
- Wikidata: [Q126683](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126683)
- iNaturalist taxon: [42378](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/42378)

## Names

- en: Saiga
- de: Saiga
- es: Antilope Saiga
- fr: Saïga
- nl: Saïga
- pt: Saiga
- pl: Suhak stepowy

## Countries with the most observations

RU (313), KZ (186), MN (64), UA (3)

## Summary

The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica, ) or saiga is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, it ranged across the mammoth steppe from the British Isles to Beringia. Today, the dominant subspecies (S. t. tatarica) only occurs in Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast of Russia and in the Ural Mountains, Ustyurt Plateau and Betpak-Dala regions of Kazakhstan. A portion of the Ustyurt population migrates…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga_antelope

## Photo

![Saiga](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/saiga/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51501644

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/saiga?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).