Pseudois

Translingual

Pseudois nayaur

Proper noun

Pseudois m

A taxonomic genus within the family Bovidae – the blue sheep of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau.

Usage notes

P. schaeferi is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of P. nayaur.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Artiodactyla - order; Bovidae - family; Caprinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

(genus): Pseudois nayaur (Himalayan blue sheep), Pseudois schaeferi (dwarf blue sheep) (species)

Further reading

Pseudois on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pseudois on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Pseudois on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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