Budorcas
| Budorcas | |
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| Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
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]
Etymology
[edit]Budorcas comes from Ancient Greek: βοῦς, romanized: bous, lit. 'ox, cow' and δορκάς, dorkas, 'gazelle'.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Neas, John F.; Hoffmann, Robert S. (27 February 1987). "Budorcas taxicolor". Mammalian Species (277): 1–7. doi:10.2307/3503907. ISSN 0076-3519. JSTOR 3503907.