Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Capra ibex Linnaeus 1758

Description

Capra ibex Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10 th ed., 1:68.

TYPE LOCALITY: Switzerland, Valais.

DISTRIBUTION: C. Europe; Afghanistan and Kashmir to Mongolia and C. China; N. Ethiopia to Syria and Arabia.

COMMENT: Includes nubiana, sibirica, and walie; see Corbet, 1978:215. PG believes sibirica and nubiana are valid species, as do most Russian authors; see Gromov and Baranova, 1981:403. Ansell, 1972, Part 15:69-70, listed walie as a species of uncertain status.

PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. walie only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009035003001 as C. ibex.

5301419009035005001 as C. walie.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 315-343 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 330, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352976

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Capra
Species
ibex
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Capra ibex Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).
  • Ansell, W. F. H. 1972. Order Artiodactyla. Part 15. Pp. 1 - 84, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 2 May 1972]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.