Oreamnos

"Rocky Mountain Goat" and "Mountain Goats" redirect here. For other meanings see Mountain Goat (disambiguation).
Oreamnos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Oreamnos

Oreamnos is a genus of North American caprines. The Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is the only living species.[1] Until the end of the Pleistocene another species, Oreamnos harringtoni, was distributed to the south of the recent form.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200810. 
  2. ^ Mead, JI, Agenbroad, LD, Phillips, AMIII, Middeleton, LT: Extinct mountain goat (Oreamnos harringtoni ) in southeastern Utah. QUATERN. END. RES. Vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 323-331. 1987.