Indochinese serow

Indochinese serow
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Capricornis
Species: C. milneedwardsii
Subspecies: C. m. maritimus
Trinomial name
Capricornis milneedwardsii maritimus
(Heude, 1888)
Synonyms
  • Naemorhedus sumatraensis maritimus
  • Capricornis sumatraensis maritimus

The Indochinese serow (Capricornis milneedwardsii maritimus) is a vulnerable goat-anteope, a subspecies of the Chinese Serow, native to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

In Cambodia the Indochinese serow, known as សត្វកែះ /sat kɛh/ , is restricted to the forests of the karstic mountain areas in Mondulkiri Province. The main threat in Cambodia comes from logging, hunting as well as landmines and other ordnance left by the conflict.[1]

References

  1. David M. Shackleton, Wild sheep and goats and their relatives, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources


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