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Pseudois nayaur

Description

Pseudois nayaur (Hodgson 1833)

[Ovis] nayaur Hodgson 1833, Asiat. Res., 18 (2): 135.

Type Locality: "The Himálaya"; restricted to "the Tibetan frontier of Nepal " (Lydekker, 1913:127).

Vernacular Names: Bharal.

Distribution: Bhutan, N Burma (Rabinowitz, 1996), China (Gansu, S Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Sichuan, S Sinkiang, Tibet including Qinghai, and N Yunnan), Himalayas (N India, Nepal, N Pakistan), and SE Tajikistan (Pamir Range).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as P. n. nayaur and P. n. szechuanensis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: See Wang and Hoffmann (1987, Mammalian Species, 278).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 711, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hodgson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Pseudois
Species
nayaur
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudois nayaur (Hodgson, 1833) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Lydekker, R. 1913 - 1916. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History) [Vol 2 and 3 co-authored with G. Blaine]. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 5 volumes [1: 1 - 249 [1913], 2: 1 - 295 [1914 a], 3: 1 - 283 [1914 b], 4: 1 - 438 [1915], 5: 1 - 207 pp. [1916].
  • Rabinowitz, A. 1996. Discovery on Ice Mountain. Wildlife Conservation, 99 (4), 10.
  • Wang, Xiaoming and R. S. Hoffmann. 1987. Pseudois nayaur and Pseudois schaeferi. Mammalian Species, 278: 1 - 6.