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Taxonomy
Antelope hodgsonii was named by Abel (1826). It is extant.
It was recombined as Pantholops hodgsoni by Abel (1826); it was recombined as Antilope (Pantholops) hodgsonii by Hodgson (1834); it was recombined as Pantholops hodgsonii by Hodgson (1842) and Leslie and Schaller (2008).
It was recombined as Pantholops hodgsoni by Abel (1826); it was recombined as Antilope (Pantholops) hodgsonii by Hodgson (1834); it was recombined as Pantholops hodgsonii by Hodgson (1842) and Leslie and Schaller (2008).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1826 | Pantholops hodgsoni Abel |
| 1826 | Antelope hodgsonii Abel p. 233–234 |
| 1834 | Antelope hodgsonii Abel p. 233–234 |
| 1834 | Antilope (Pantholops) hodgsonii Hodgson |
| 1842 | Pantholops hodgsonii Hodgson p. 282 |
| 2008 | Pantholops hodgsoni Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Figure 5 |
| 2008 | Pantholops hodgsonii Leslie Jr. and Schaller p. 2 |
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Pantholops hodgsonii Abel 1826
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. M. Leslie and G. B. Schaller 2008 | Pantholops hodgsonii is the only completely endemic species of large mammal on the Tibetan Plateau (Schaller 1998); it has no congeners and is unique among ungulates of comparable size. Unlike other caprids, female P. hodgsonii do not have horns (Pilgrim 1939). Enlarged snout and fine undercoat of the pelage of both sexes and long upright lyre-shaped horns of males (Fig. 1) distinguish P. hodgsonii from other ungulates, particularly the sympatric Procapra picticaudata (Tibetan gazelle—Schaller 1998) and other Asiatic gazelles, such as Gazella subgutturosa (goitered gazelle—Kingswood and Blank 1996) and Procapra guttur- osa (Mongolian gazelle—Sokolov and Lushchekina 1997).
The related, but allopatric, Saiga tatarica (saiga antelope—Sokolov 1974) is of comparable mass, except the horns are straighter and about 2 times longer in P. hodgsonii. Although both species have pronounced nasal cavities, those of saiga antelope result in unique ‘‘large lacrimal bones forming lateral sides of nasal foramen’’ (Sokolov 1974:1). P. hodgsonii has short and broad nasals with large nasal apertures (Pilgrim 1939). |
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1999, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available