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''Budorcas'' is a genus of bovid that contains a single living species, the takin ''(Budorcas taxicolor)''. Two extinct species are known from the Pliocene, ''B. teilhardi'' from China and ''B. churcheri'' from Ethiopia. The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.


Etymology

''Budorcas'' comes from grc, βοῦς, bous, ox, cow and grc, δορκάς, dorkas, gazelle, label=none.


References

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