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--> GENUS Capra
SPECIES Capra pyrenaica
| Author: | Schinz, 1838. | | Citation: | N. Denkschr. Schneiz. Ges. Natur. Wiss., 2: 9. | | Common Name: | Spanish Ibex | | Type Locality: | "In den spanischen Pyrenäen, auf den Gebirgen der Sierra de Randa und des Königreiches Granada"; restricted to Spain, Pyrenees Mtns, Huesca, near Maladetta Pass (Harper, 1940). | | Distribution: | Iberian Peninsula; extinct in Portugal. | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered as C. p. pyrenaica; IUCN – Extinct as C. p. pyrenaica, Vulnerable as C. p. victoriae, Lower Risk (cd) as C. p. hispanica, otherwise Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Validity of subspecies questioned by Coutourier (1962), Clouet (1979) and following mtDNA analysis by Manceau et al. (1999b). |
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