Budorcas
Genus of mammals
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Budorcas is a genus of bovid that contains a single living species, the takin (Budorcas taxicolor). Two extinct species are known from the Pliocene, B. teilhardi from China and B. churcheri from Ethiopia.[2] The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.[3]
| Budorcas | |
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| Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| Tribe: | Caprini |
| Genus: | Budorcas Hodgson, 1850[1] |
| Type species | |
| Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson, 1850 | |
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Etymology
Budorcas comes from Ancient Greek: βοῦς, romanized: bous, lit. 'ox, cow' and δορκάς, dorkas, 'gazelle'.[4]