Budorcas
Sign in to saveBudorcas 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. The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.
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- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Caprini
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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. The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.
==Etymology== Budorcas comes from and .
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