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''Budorcas'' is a genus of
bovid The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, bison, buffalo, antelopes, and caprines. A member of this family is called a bovid. With 143 extant species and 300 known extinct species, t ...
that contains a single living species, the
takin The takin (''Budorcas taxicolor''; ), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a large species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae found in the eastern Himalayas. It includes four subspecies: the Mishmi takin (''B. t. taxicolor''), the g ...
''(Budorcas taxicolor)''. Two extinct species are known from the
Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58


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{{Taxonbar, from= Q10741556 Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Brian Houghton Hodgson Caprids Mammals described in 1850