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--> FAMILY Bovidae
--> SUBFAMILY Antilopinae
--> GENUS Saiga
SPECIES Saiga borealis
| Author: | Tschersky, 1876. | | Citation: | Izvest. Sibir. Otdel. Russ. Geog. Obshchest., 7(5-Apr): 14. | | Common Name: | Mongolian Saiga | | Type Locality: | Russia, Siberia, Yakutsia, River Wiljui or Vilyuy. | | Distribution: | W Mongolia (S. b. mongolica). | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered and IUCN – Vulnerable as S. tatarica mongolica.; see comments. | | Comments: | The Pleistocene mammoth-steppe Saiga is a distinct species including the living subspecies mongolica according to Baryshnikov and Tikhonov (1994). Reviewed in part as S. tatarica mongolica by Sokolov (1974, Mammalian Species, 38). |
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