Budorcas

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.^[2] The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.^[3]

Budorcas Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent
Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Caprinae
Tribe:	Caprini
Genus:	Budorcas Hodgson, 1850[1]
Type species
Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson, 1850
Species
Budorcas taxicolor †Budorcas churcheri †Budorcas teilhardi

Etymology

Budorcas comes from Ancient Greek: βοῦς, romanized: bous, lit. 'ox, cow' and δορκάς, dorkas, 'gazelle'.^[4]