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Tibetan argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni), hybrid, urial (Ovis orientalis vignei)
| Subject: | Tibetan argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni), hybrid, urial (Ovis orientalis vignei)
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R. A. Sterndale Del.
1. Ovis hodgsoni. -2. Hybrid. -3. Ovis vignei.
* Ovis hodgsoni == Tibetan argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni)
* Ovis vignei == urial (Ovis orientalis vignei)
Image of first illustration in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, volume 1, number 1, 1886, of the horns of the sheep, Ovis hodgsoni, Ovis vignei, and of an hybrid found in the Zanskar region of the upper Indus river valley. Scanned from original by Fowler&fowler 13:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Date 1886
Source Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, vol. 1, num. 1
Author Robert Armitage Sterndale CMG (1839 – 1902)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_illustrationJBNHSa.jpg
The argali or the mountain sheep (Ovis ammon) is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of Central Asia (Himalaya, Tibet, Altay).
The urial (Ovis orientalis vignei), also known as the arkars or shapo, is a subspecies group of the wild sheep Ovis orientalis. The urial is found in western central Asia from northeastern Iran and western Kazakhstan to Pakistan's Balochistan and Ladakh regions of North India. |
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