Life Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae

• Capra aegagrus Erxleben, 1777 mountais of, Asia Minor, Caucasus - Kopet Dag, W.Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Sind. See [maps] Wild Goat Bezoar Pasang

  • Capra aegagrus Erxleben, 1777; ; TL: Daghestan, E. Caucasus

  Ancestor of the domestic goat.

  • C. a. aegagrus Caucasus, Iran, Asia Minor, Oman

    • caucasica (Gray)
    • cicilica
    • florstedti ; (Bulghar Dag, Asia Minor)
    • gazella (Gmelin); (Iran)
    • persica ; (Laristan, Iran)
  • C. a. cretica Schinz, 1838 Crete, introduced (Greece)

    • aegagrus cretica (Schinz, 1838); (Crete)
    • cretensis
  • C. a. picta (Erhard, 1858) Aegian Islands

    • aegagrus picta (Erhard, 1858); ; TL: Aegian Islands of Erimomilos
  • C. a. blythi Hume, 1875 Baluchistan, E.Iran

    • aegagrus blythi (Hume, 1875); ; TL: Sind
    • neglectus
  • C. a. turkmenica Tzalkin, 1950 Kopet Dagh, Khurasan Mts.

    • Capra aegagrus turcmenicus Tzalkin, 1950; ; TL: 25km S. of Gjaurs railway station, Tawa Mts, central Kopet Dag, Turkmenistan
• Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 Domestic Goat

  • Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (edn. 10) 1: 68; TL: Sweden (domesticated)
• Capra ibex Linnaeus, 1758 Alps, C.Asia (mountains), Sayan - Turkestan, N.Afghanistan, Kashmir, Palestine, Arabia, Sinai, Egypt (extinct?), Sudan. See [maps] Ibex

  • Capra ibex Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (edn. 10) 1: 68; TL: Switzerland, Valais

  800x565 (~199Kb) "Schwarze Berge" Wild Animal Park, Germany, June 2000, Photo © Ralf Schmode

  • C. i. ibex Alps, Italian Alps

    • alpina
    • europaea
    • graicus
  • C. i. sibirica (Pallas, 1776) Sayan, Altai Mts.

    • ibex sibirica (Pallas, 1776); (Sayan and Altai Mts)
    • pallasii
    • altaica
    • fasciata
    • lydekkeri
    • typica
    • Capra sibirica lorenzi Satunin, 1905; ; TL: 320 verst S. of Nishneudinsk, Sayan Mts
  • C. i. alaiana Noack, 1902 Turkestan (mountains)

    • ibex alaiana (Noack, 1902); ; TL: Alai Mts, Turkestan
    • almasyi ; (Tien Shan)
    • merzbacheri
    • transalaiana
    • Capra sibirica formosovi Tzalkin, 1949; ; TL: Kyamattu Gorge, 26 km SW of Novo-Dimitrievsk, Tien Shan
  • C. i. hemalayana Hodgson, 1841 W.Himalayas

    • ibex hemalayana (Hodgson, 1841); (W. Himalayas)
    • dauvergnii
    • filippii
    • pedri
    • sacin
    • sakeen
    • skyn
    • wardi
    • ?Capra sibirica dementievi Tzalkin, 1949; ; TL: Mt Tokhta-Khom, SW. of Yarkand, Sinkiang, China
  • C. i. hagenbecki Noack, 1903 Mongolian Altai

    • ibex hagenbecki (Noack, 1903); (Mongolian Altai)
  • C. i. nubiana Cuvier, 1825 Palestine, Arabia, Egypt, Sudan

    • ibex nubiana (Cuvier, 1825); ; TL: Upper Egypt
    • typica
    • arabica
    • beden ; (SW. Arabia)
    • mengesi ; (S. Arabia)
    • sinaitica ; (Sinai)
  • C. i. walie Rüppell, 1835 Ethiopia (Simien Mts.)

    • Capra walie Rüppell, 1835; ; TL: Simen and Gojjam, Ethiopia
    • vali
• Capra caucasica Güldenstaedt & Pallas, 1783 W.Caucasus. See [maps] West Caucasian Tur Kuban

  • Capra caucasica Güldenstaedt & Pallas, 1783; Acta Acad. Sci. Petrop. (for 1779) 2: 273; TL: Between Malka and Baksan R., E of Mt Elbruz, Caucasus
  • dinniki ; (NW. Caucasus)
  • raddei ; (SW. Caucasus)
  • severtzovi ; (W. of Mt Elbruz)
• Capra cylindricornis (Blyth, 1841) E.Caucasus. See [maps] East Caucasian Tur

  • Ovis cylindricornis Blyth, 1841; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1840: 68; TL: E.Caucasus Mts., Mt. Kasber
  • pallasii (Rouillier)

  920x680 (~127Kb) Russia, Moscow Zoo, 12.3.2010, Photo © D. Smirnov

  840x720 (~118Kb) Russia, Moscow Zoo, 12.3.2010, Photo © D. Smirnov

• Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838 Spanish Pyrenees, Sierra de Gredos, Sierra Morena, Sierra de Ronda, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Cazorla, Sierra de Cardo. See [maps] Spanish Ibex

  • Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838; N. Denkschr. Schneiz. Ges. Natur. Wiss. 2: 9; TL: Spanish Pyrenees, Huesca, near Maldetta Pass
  • C. p. pyrenaica Pyrenees

    • typica
  • C. p. hispanica Schimper, 1848 SE.Spain (Sierra Nevada)
  • C. p. lusitanica Schlegel, 1872 N.Portugal (extinct)
  • C. p. victoriae Cabrera, 1911 Sierra de Gredos

    • pyrenaica victoriae (Cabrera, 1911); ; TL: Sierra de Gredos, central Spain
• Capra falconeri (Wagner, 1839) E.Kashmir - Hindu Kush, W.Pakistan - Quetta, S.Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, NW.Afghanistan. See [maps] Markhor

  • Aegoceros falconeri Wagner, 1839; Gelehrte Anzeign. I. K. Bayer Akad. Wiss. Munchen, 9: 430; TL: Astor, Kashmir
  • C. f. falconeri E.Kashmir

    • typica
  • C. f. heptneri Zalkin, 1945 Tadzhikistan, Russian Turkestan

    • ognevi ; (S. Uzbekistan)
  • C. f. cashmiriensis Lydekker, 1898 W.Kashmir - Hindu Kush
  • C. f. megaceros Hutton, 1842 N.Pakistan, Afghanistan (Kyber Pass)
  • C. f. jerdoni Hume, 1875 W.Paskistan (Peshawar - Quetta)
  • ?C. f. chialtanensis Lydekker, 1913 Baluchistan (S. of Quetta)

• Capra lervia (Pallas, 1777) Sahara (desert zone mountains), Niger, N.Tchad, Sudan - Red Sea. See [maps] Barbary Sheep Auoudad

  • Antilope lervia Pallas, 1777; Spicil. Zool., 12: 12; TL: Oran, Algeria

  • Ammotragus lervia;

  713x600 (~171Kb) Hagenbeck Zoological Garden, Hamburg (Germany), May 1999, Photo © Ralf Schmode

  • C. l. lervia Morocco - Tunisia

    • tragelaphus
  • C. l. fassini (Lepri, 1930) Libya, S.Tunisia
  • C. l. ornata (Audouin, 1829) Egypt
  • C. l. sahariensis (Rothschild, 1913) Algerian Sahara

    • lervia sahariensis (Rothschild, 1913); ; TL: Qued Mya at 28°30'N, 3°E
  • C. l. blainei (Rothschild, 1913) N.Sudan, NE.Tchad, Uweinat Mts.

    • Oris lervia blainei Rothschild, 1913; ; TL: Border of Dongola Province and Kordofan, Sudan
  • C. l. angusi (Rothschild, 1921) from (Tibesti, Air) - Mali (Adrar)

    • Ammotragus lervia angusi Rothschild, 1921; ; TL: Tarrouaji Mt. Asben, Niger

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