Budorcas | |
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Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Caprinae |
Tribe: | Caprini |
Genus: | Budorcas Hodgson, 1850[1] |
Type species | |
Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson, 1850
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Species | |
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Budorcas is a genus of bovid that contains a single living species, the takin (Budorcas taxicolor). Two extinct species are known from the Pliocene, B. teilhardi from China and B. churcheri from Ethiopia.[2] The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.[3]
Budorcas comes from Ancient Greek: βοῦς, romanized: bous, lit. 'ox, cow' and δορκάς, dorkas, 'gazelle'.[4]