Nilgiritragus hylocrius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Nilgiritragus
- Species
- Nilgiritragus hylocrius
- Scientific Name
- Nilgiritragus hylocrius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Nilgiri tahr
The Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) is an ungulate that is endemic to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western and Eastern Ghats in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India. It is the only species in the genus Nilgiritragus and is closely related to the sheep of the genus Ovis.
It is the state animal of Tamil Nadu.
...Nilgiritragus hylocrius in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Nilgiriaanse Tahr
- Arabic
- طهر نلغيري
- Arabic
- وعل نلغيري
- Bokmål
- Nilgiritahr
- Czech
- tahr jihoindický
- Dutch
- Nilgirithargeit
- English
- Nilgiri Tahr
- Finnish
- intiantari
- French
- Mouflon des Nilgiri
- German
- Nilgiritahr
- Polish
- nilgiritar leśny
- Portuguese
- Tahr-de-nilgiri
- Russian
- Нилгирийский тар
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