Capra falconeri

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Overview

Endangered

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.4Forest - Temperate 3.4Shrubland - Temperate

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 22-Apr-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Capra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 49 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. aegagrus (Wild Goat) · C. aegagrus aegagrus · C. aegagrus blythi (Sind Ibex) · C. aegagrus chialtanensis (Chiltan Goat) · C. aegagrus cretensis · C. aegagrus cretica (Cretan Goat) · C. aegagrus hircus (Goats) · C. aegagrus turcmenica (Turkmen Wild Goat) · C. alba · C. caucasica (West Caucasian Tur) · C. cervicapra · C. cylindricornis (East Caucasian Tur) · C. domestic · C. dorcas · C. falconeri (Markhor) · C. falconeri chialtanensis · C. falconeri falconeri (Flare-Horned Markhor) · C. falconeri heptneri (Tadjik Markhor) · C. falconeri jerdoni (Straight-Horned Markhor) · C. falconeri megaceros (Straight-Horned Markhor) · C. hircus (Domestic Goat) · C. hircus aegagrus (Domestic Goat) · C. hircus'Angora' (Angora Goat) · C. hircus blythi (Domestic Goat) · C. hircus cretica · C. hircus hircus (Goats) · C. hircus'Nigerian Dwarf' (Nigerian Dwarf Goat) · C. hirucs · C. ibex (Alpine Ibex) · C. ibex ibex · C. ibex nubiana (Nubian Ibex) · C. ibex siberica · C. ibex sibirica · C. nubiana (Nubian Ibex) · C. pygmaea · C. pyrenaica (Spanish Ibex) · C. pyrenaica hispanica · C. pyrenaica lusitanica (Portugese Ibex) · C. pyrenaica pyrenaica (Pyrenean Ibex) · C. pyrenaica victoriae (Gredos Ibex) · C. reversa · C. siberica · C. sibirica (Siberian Ibex) · C. sibirica var. hagenbecki Noack, 1903 · C. sibirica lydekkeri · C. sibrica (Asiatic Ibex) · C. tatarica · C. walie (Walia Ibex) · C. warryato

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1907. ENG url p. 592, p. 93.
• A survey of the mammals of Afghanistan, resulting from the 1965 Street Expedition (excluding bats) [by] Jerry D. Hassinger. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. ENG url p. 170, p. 172.
• An annotated bibliography on the origin and descent of domestic mammals, [by] Shimon Angress and Charles A. Reed. Chicago:Chicago Natural History Museum Press, 1962. ENG url p. 18, p. 21, p. 39, p. 57, p. 58, p. 64, p. 82.
• Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum [etc.] GER url p. 28.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 211, p. 218, p. 219, p. 220, p. 221, p. 222, p. 223, p. 456, p. 457.
• Arkiv för zoologi / utgivet af K. Svenska vetenskaps-akademien. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & soner, 1903-1974. SWE url p. 17, p. 18.
• Blood immunity and blood relationship; a demonstration of certain blood-relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood, by George H. F. Nuttall...Including original researches by G. S. Graham-Smith...and T. S. P. Strangeways. Cambridge, University press, 1904. ENG url p. 256.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 56.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 549.
• Caprinae Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website
• Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta / by John Anderson, Superintendent of the Indian Museum. Calcutta, 1881-1891. ENG url p. 142, p. 145.
• Catalogue of the bones of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum / [compiled by Edward Gerrard]. London: printed by Taylor and Francis, by order of the Trustees, 1862 ENG url p. 250.
• Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History) by R. Lydekker. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1913-1916. ENG url p. 146, p. 169, p. 175, p. 18, p. 204.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. ENG url p. 404, p. 405, p. 405, p. 408, p. 408.
• Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology, by Vernon Lyman Kellogg and Rennie Wilbur Doane. New York, H. Holt and company[c1915] ENG url p. 330, p. 519.
• Evolution by means of hybridization, by J. P. Lotsy. The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1916. ENG url p. 106.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Introduction to the mammal survey of the 1965 Street Expedition to Afghanistan [by] Jerry D. Hassinger. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. ENG url p. 69.
• Natural science. London: Macmillan & Co., [1892-1899] ENG url p. 64.
• On growth and form / by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Cambridge: University Press; 1945. ENG url p. 881.
• Peter Grubb: Status: CITES - Appendix I C. f. chialtanensis, C. f. falconeri, C. f. heptneri, C. f. jerdoni, and C. f. megaceros; otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. f. jerdoni, C. f. megaceros, and in Chiltan Range of WC Pakistan as C. aegagrus (= C. f. chiltanensis [sic]); IUCN - Endangered as C. f. megaceros, otherwise Vulnerable
• Science progress in the twentieth century: a quarterly journal of scientific work & thought. London: John Murray, 1906-1916. ENG url p. 556.
• Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.
• Shackleton, D.M. (ed.) 1997. Wild Sheep and Goats and their relatives: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Caprinae Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, ENG url p. 372, p. 808.
• The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology, by Vernon Lyman Kellogg. New York, H. Holt and company, 1911. ENG url p. 267.
• The co-evolution of social behavior and cranial morphology in sheep and goats (Bovidae, caprini) [by] William M. Schaffer and Charles A. Reed. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1972. ENG url p. 12.
• The variation of animals and plants under domestication / By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton, 1887. ENG url p. 105, p. 438.
• Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct, by R. Lydekker. London, R. Ward, 1898. ENG url p. 286, p. 288.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.
• Zoologische Jahrbücher. Jena [Germany]: G. Fischer, GER url p. 334, p. 340.
• Zoologischer Anzeiger. Jena, VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag. GER url p. 367.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Caprinae Specialist Group 1996. Capra falconeri. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.
• Caprinae Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Mammal Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2478863
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-625138
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 625138
• IUCN ID: 3787
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2029

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