Capra caucasica Guldenstaedt and Pallas, 1783

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 315-343 : 330

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203466
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scientific name	Capra caucasica Guldenstaedt and Pallas, 1783
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Treatment

Capra caucasica Guldenstaedt and Pallas, 1783 View in CoL . Acta Acad. Sci. Petrop., for 1779, 2: 273.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.S. R., Caucasus Mtns., between Malka and Baksan Rivers, east of Mt. Elbrus .

DISTRIBUTION: W. Caucasus Mtns. (U.S.S. R.).

COMMENT: Probably should be included in ibex (RGVG) . Possibly caucasica is the prior name for cylindricornis , in which case this species should be termed severtzovi; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:407. See also comment under cylindricornis .

References

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Artiodactyla
Family	Bovidae
Genus	Capra

Capra caucasica Guldenstaedt and Pallas, 1783

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl 1982

1982

Capra caucasica

Guldenstaedt and Pallas 1783: 273

1783

Specimens