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Hemitragus
Sign in to saveHemitragus is a genus of bovids that currently contains a single living species, the Himalayan tahr. Two extinct species are also known from the Pleistocene.
Species
Himalayan Tahr
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderArtiodactyla
- FamilyBovidae
Observations550
Observations recorded1,444
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- Family
- Bovidae
- Collections
- FMNH, CALPOLY, NHMUK, UMZC, AMNH, MCZ
- Recorded in
- United States, [Himalayas; India], India
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- taxon name
- Hemitragus
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- Hemitragus
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- topic's main category
- Category:Hemitragus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hemitragus is a genus of bovids that currently contains a single living species, the Himalayan tahr. Two extinct species are also known from the Pleistocene.
The Arabian tahr and Nilgiri tahr were once included in Hemitragus but have since been assigned to their own genera.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hemitragus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.