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SPECIES Capra sibirica
| Author: | Pallas, 1776. | | Citation: | Spicil. Zool., 11: 52. | | Common Name: | Siberian Ibex | | Type Locality: | "sylvas inter Udae et Birjussae fluviorum fontes ad ipsam calcem Sajensis"; "northern slope of Sayansk Mountains, in the neighbourhood of Munku Sardyx, west of Lake Baikal" (Lydekker, 1913:143) (Russia, Siberia, Sayan Mtns, near Munku-Sardyk). | | Distribution: | Mountain ranges of N Afghanistan, China (N Gansu, W Inner Mongolia, Sinkiang, N Tibet), N India (Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh), E Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, S and W Mongolia, N Pakistan, Russia (S Siberia), and Tajikistan. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Treated as a species distinct from C. ibex by Heptner et al. (1961). |
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