Blackbuck
| Blackbuck | |
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| Male (A. c. rajputanae) | |
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| Female wi young | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Faimily: | Bovidae |
| Subfaimily: | Antilopinae |
| Genus: | Antilope Pallas, 1766 |
| Species: | A. cervicapra |
| Binomial name | |
| Antilope cervicapra | |
| Subspeshies | |
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A. c. cervicapra (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Antilope bezoartica Gray, 1850 | |
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The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is an ungulate species o antelope native tae the Indian Subcontinent that haes been classifee'd as near threatened bi IUCN syne 2003, as its range haes decreased sharply durin the 20t century. The native population is stable, wi an estimatit 50,000 individuals.[1]
The blackbuck is the anly livin species o the genus Antilope.[2][3] Its generic name stems frae the Laitin wird antalopus, a horned ainimal.[4] The specific name cervicapra is componed o the Laitin wirds capra, she-goat an cervus, deer.[5]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group. 2017. Antilope cervicapra. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T1681A50181949. http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/1681/0 Downloaded on 16 September 2017.
- ↑ Blanford, W.T. (1888–1891). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. Taylor and Francis, London.
- ↑ Nowak, R. M. (1999). Blackbuck. Pages 1193–1194 in: Walker's Mammals of the World. Volume 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA and London, UK.
- ↑ Palmer, T. S.; Merriam, C. H. (1904). Antilope in: Index generum mammalium : a list of the genera and families of mammals. Government Printing Office, Washington.
- ↑ Palmer, T. S.; Merriam, C. H. (1904). Capra in: Index generum mammalium : a list of the genera and families of mammals. Government Printing Office, Washington.
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