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Caprinae

Mammalia - Bovidae

Taxonomy

Caprinae was named by Gray (1821). It is extant.

It was assigned to Ruminantes by Gray (1821); and to Bovidae by Gill (1872), Hay (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Alcala and Morales (1997), Grubb (2001), Mead and Taylor (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Gentry (2010).

Subtaxa

Aragoral, Benicerus, Capricornis, Damalavus, Hemitragus, Myotragus, Naemorhedini, Ovibos, Ovibovini, Pseudois, Rupicapra, Rupicaprini

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1821	Caprinae Gray p. 307
1872	Caprinae Gill
1902	Caprinae Hay p. 687
1980	Caprinae Kurten and Anderson p. 326
1997	Caprinae Alcala and Morales p. 947
2001	Caprinae Grubb p. 385
2005	Caprinae Mead and Taylor p. 3
2008	Caprinae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Fig. 5
2010	Caprinae Gentry p. 791

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes

Rank	Name	Author
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Artiodactylamorpha
—	Artiodactyla	()
—	Ruminantiamorpha
—	Ruminantia	(Scopoli 1777)
—	Pecora	()
family	Bovidae
subfamily	Caprinae
subfamily	Caprinae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Caprinae Gray 1821

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G. †Aragoral Alcala and Morales 1997

†Aragoral mudejar Alcala and Morales 1997

G. †Benicerus Heintz 1973

†Benicerus theobaldi Heintz 1973

G. Capricornis

Capricornis crispus Temminck 1845

Capricornis sumatraensis Linnaeus 1758

G. †Damalavus Arambourg 1958

†Damalavus boroccoi Arambourg 1959

G. Hemitragus Hodgson 1841