Bukharan markhor

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Tadjik Markhor
Bukharan Markhor at the
LA Zoo

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe:
Caprini
Genus: Capra
Species:
C. falconeri
Subspecies:
C. f. heptneri
Trinomial name
Capra falconeri heptneri
Zalkin, 1945

The Bukharan markhor, or Tadjik markhor

goat-antelope, native to Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, possibly also Afghanistan
. Today it is found in few scattered populations, for example in Kugitang Nature Reserve in easternmost Turkmenistan. The population of the Bukharan markhor is at around 5,750 animals.[3]

See also

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T3787A82028427.en
    . Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  2. ISBN 978-0-691-16717-6
  3. ^ Paul I. Weinberg, Raul Valdez, Alexander K. Fedosenko: Status of the Heptner's markhor (Capra falconeri heptneri) in Turkmenistan Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 78, No. 3, Aug., 1997


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