Arabian tahr | |
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Tahr at Al Ain Zoo near Jebel Hafeet in the UAE | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Caprinae |
Tribe: | Caprini |
Genus: | Arabitragus Ropiquet & Hassanin, 2005 |
Species: | A. jayakari
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Binomial name | |
Arabitragus jayakari (Thomas, 1894)
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Distribution of the tahr in the region of the Hajar Mountains of Oman and the UAE in Eastern Arabia | |
Synonyms | |
Hemitragus jayakari |
The Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari) is a species of tahr native to eastern Arabia. Until recently, it was placed in the genus Hemitragus, but genetic evidence supports its removal to a separate monotypic genus, Arabitragus.