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--> GENUS Boselaphus
SPECIES Boselaphus tragocamelus
Author: | Pallas, 1766. | Citation: | Misc. Zool.: 5. | Common Name: | Nilgai | Type Locality: | No locality cited; restricted to "plains of Peninsular India" (Lydekker, 1914b:227). | Distribution: | India, Nepal (Terai), and E Pakistan; introduced into Texas (USA). | Status: | IUCN – Least Concern. | Comments: | Antilope tragocamelus Pallas, 1766, was based on accounts of the "tragelaphus" by Caius, Gesner and Ray and on Parsons' (1745) description of a male nilgai in London (here designated the lectotype), which had first been "brought to Bengal, from a very remote part of the Mogul's Dominions". |
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