Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:68.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden (domesticated stock) .

DISTRIBUTION: Turkey, Caucasus region, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Iran, SW Afghanistan, S Pakistan, Oman (feral?), extinct in Lebanon and Syria; domesticated worldwide; feral populations in British Isles, islands in the Mediterranean, USA, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand and many oceanic islands including Bonin, Hawaiian, Galapagos, Seychelles, and Juan Fernandez Isis.

SYNONYMS: aegagrus, blythi, cilicica, eretica, dorcas, florstedti, gazella, jourensis, neglecta, persica, pietà, turcmenica.

COMMENTS: Includes aegagrus, but see Corbet (1978c:214).