Ovis vignei Blyth, 1841 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:70 [1841].

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kashmir, Astor .

DISTRIBUTION: Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, and NE Iran to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and NW India; Oman (introduced?).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered as O. v. vignei .

SYNONYMS: arabica, arkal, blanfordi, bochariensis, cycloceros, dolgopolovi, punjabiensis, severtzovi, varentsowi.

COMMENTS: Hybridizes with orientalis (= aries) in C Iran; see Nadler et al. (1971b) and Valdez et al. (1978).