Budorcas

Budorcas
Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent
Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: Budorcas
Hodgson, 1850
Type species
Budorcas taxicolor
Hodgson, 1850
Species

Budorcas is a genus of bovid that contains two living species. Two extinct species are known from the Pliocene, B. teilhardi from China and B. churcheri from Ethiopia. The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.

Etymology

Budorcas comes from Ancient Greek: βοῦς, romanized: bous, lit. 'ox, cow' and δορκάς, dorkas, 'gazelle'.

References

  1. ↑ Hodgson BH (1850). "On the Tákin of the Eastern Himálaya: Budorcas Taxicolor mihi. N.G. (With three Plates.)". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 19: 65–75.
  2. ↑ Yang L, Wei Fw, Zhan Xj, Fan Hz, Zhao Pp, Huang Gp, et al. (2022). "Evolutionary conservation genomics reveals recent speciation and local adaptation in threatened takins". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39 (6) msac111. doi:10.1093/molbev/msac111. PMC 9174980. PMID 35599233.
  3. ↑ "Budorcas". Biolib.
  4. ↑ Bibi F, Vrba E, Fack F (2012). "A new African fossil caprin and a combined molecular and morphological Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of caprini (Mammalia: Bovidae)". J Evol Biol. 25 (9): 1843–1854. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02572.x. PMID 22816969.
  5. ↑ Neas JF, Hoffmann RS (27 February 1987). "Budorcas taxicolor". Mammalian Species (277): 1–7. doi:10.2307/3503907. ISSN 0076-3519. JSTOR 3503907.