Budorcas
Budorcas | |
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Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Caprinae |
Tribe: | Caprini |
Genus: | Budorcas Hodgson, 1850[1] |
Type species | |
Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson, 1850
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Species | |
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Budorcas is a genus of bovid that contains a single living species, the takin (Budorcas taxicolor). Two extinct species are known from the Pliocene, B. teilhardi from China and B churcheri from Ethiopia.[2] The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.[3]
References[]
- ^ Hodgson, B.H. (1850). "On the Tákin of the Eastern Himálaya: Budorcas Taxicolor mihi. N.G. (With three Plates.)". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 19: 65–75.
- ^ "Budorcas". Biolib.
- ^ Bibi, F.; Vrba, E.; Fack, F. (2012). "A new African fossil caprin and a combined molecular and morphological Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of caprini (Mammalia: Bovidae)". J Evol Biol. 25 (9): 1843–1854. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02572.x. PMID 22816969.
Categories:
- Mammal genera
- Mammal genera with one living species
- Taxa named by Brian Houghton Hodgson
- Caprids
- Mammals described in 1850