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Antilope cervicapra

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Description

Antilope cervicapra (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:69.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Travancore, inland of Trivandrum.

DISTRIBUTION: E Pakistan (extinct but reintroduced); India from Punjab south to Madras and east to Bihar (formerly up to Assam); extinct in Bangladesh and now localized in India; introduced to Nepal, Texas (USA), and Argentina.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Nepal).

SYNONYMS: bezoartica, bilineata, centralis, hagenbecki, rajputanae, rupicapra, strepsiceros.

COMMENTS: Revised by Groves (1982c).

Notes

Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 395, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Antilope
Species
cervicapra
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Antilope cervicapra (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Groves, C. P. 1982 c. A note on geographic variation in the Indian blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra Linnaeus, 1758). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 79: 489 - 503.