Himalayan Serow

Himalayan Serow[1]
Hunter with dead himalayan serow
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Capricornis
Species: C. thar
Binomial name
Capricornis thar
Hodgson, 1831

The Himalayan Serow (Capricornis thar) is a vulnerable goat-antelope, native to eastern and southeastern Bangladesh, the Himalayas (Bhutan, northern India, and Nepal), northeastern India, and probably western Burma.[1] It has been considered a subspecies of C. sumatraensis.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 705. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200796. 
  2. ^ "Capricornis sumatraensis ssp. thar". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2007. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 1996. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/3816. Retrieved 2008-09-03.