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Naemorhedus griseus Milne-Edwards 1871

Description

Naemorhedus griseus Milne-Edwards 1871

Naemorhedus griseus Milne-Edwards 1871, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull., 7: 93.

Type Locality: "du nord de la Chine "; China, Sichuan, Moupin (Baoxing).

Vernacular Names: Chinese Goral.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Naemorhedus griseus subsp. griseus Milne-Edwards 1871

Subspecies Naemorhedus griseus subsp. evansi Lydekker 1902

Distribution: W Burma, E China (SW Inner Mongolia to Yunnan), NE India (Provinces E of Bangladesh), and NW Thailand. Also SE Burma and N Vietnam (Tonkin) (Groves and Grubb, in prep.). Occurrence in Laos as yet unconfirmed (Duckworth et al., 1999).

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as N. caudatus evansi and N. c. griseus.

Discussion: Fully described by Milne-Edwards, Rech. Hist. Nat. Mamm., Faune Tibet-Oriental, p. 361, pl.70, 71, 71a [1874]. Reviewed by J. I. Mead (1989, Mammalian Species, 335, as Nemorhaedus goral).

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 706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Milne-Edwards
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Naemorhedus
Species
griseus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Naemorhedus griseus Milne-Edwards, 1871 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Duckworth, J. W., R. E. Salter, and K. Khounboline (eds.). 1999. Wildlife in Lao PDR. 1999 status report. The World Conservation Union, Vientiane, Lao PDR, 275 pp.
  • Mead, E. M., and J. I. Mead. 1989. Quaternary zoogeography of the Nearctic Dicrostonyx lemmings. Boreas, 18: 323 - 332.