| Sichuan takin[1] | |
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| A Sichuan takin at the Lincoln Park Zoo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| Tribe: | Caprini |
| Genus: | Budorcas |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | B. t. tibetana
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| Trinomial name | |
| Budorcas taxicolor tibetana Milne-Edwards, 1874
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The Sichuan takin or Tibetan takin (Budorcas taxicolor tibetana) is a subspecies of takin (goat-antelope). Listed as a vulnerable species, the Sichuan takin is native to Tibet and the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.[2]
- ^ Grubb, P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Hildyard, Anne; Thompson, Paul; Prior, Amy, eds. (2001). Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 0-7614-7194-4.