Bukharan Markhor

Bukharan Markhor

Taxobox
name = Bukharan Markhor



image_caption = Bukharan Markhor at the LA Zoo
status = CR
trend = unknown
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
subfamilia = Caprinae
genus = "Capra"
species = "C. falconeri"
subspecies = "C. f. heptneri"
trinomial = "Capra falconeri heptneri"
trinomial_authority = Zalkin, 1945

The Bukharan Markhor or Tadjik Markhor ("Capra falconeri heptneri") is a critically endangered goat-antelope, native to Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, possibly also Afghanistan.


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