Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 405

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Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:68 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden (domesticated stock) .

DISTRIBUTION: Turkey, Caucasus region, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Iran, SW Afghanistan, S Pakistan, Oman (feral?), extinct in Lebanon and Syria; domesticated worldwide; feral populations in British Isles, islands in the Mediterranean, USA, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand and many oceanic islands including Bonin, Hawaiian, Galapagos, Seychelles, and Juan Fernandez Isis.

SYNONYMS: aegagrus , blythi, cilicica, eretica, dorcas , florstedti, gazella , jourensis, neglecta, persica, pietà, turcmenica.

COMMENTS: Includes aegagrus , but see Corbet (1978c:214).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Artiodactyla
Family	Bovidae
Genus	Capra