Nilgai
Nilgai in the Hellabrunn Zoo, Munich
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Faimily: Bovidae
Subfaimily: Bovinae
Genus: Boselaphus
Blainville, 1816
Species: B. tragocamelus
Binomial name
Boselaphus tragocamelus
(Pallas, 1766)
Range of the nilgai
Synonyms[2]
  • Antilope tragocamelus (Pallas, 1766)
  • A. albipes (Erxleben, 1777)
  • A. leucopus (Zimmermann, 1777)
  • A. picta (Pallas, 1776)
  • Boselaphus picta (de Blainville, 1816)
  • B. albipes (Desmarest, 1816)
  • Cemas tragocamelus (Oken, 1816)
  • C. picta (Oken, 1816)
  • Damalis risia (C. H. Smith, 1827)
  • D. picta (Brookes, 1828)
  • Portax risia (C. H. Smith, 1827)
  • P. tragelaphus (Sundevall, 1846)
  • Tragelaphus hippelaphus (Ogilby, 1838)

The nilgai or blue bull (Boselaphus tragocamelus), sometimes cried the neelghae or nilgau, is the lairgest Asie antelope.

References eedit

  1. Mallon, D.P. (2008). "Boselaphus tragocamelus". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 29 Mairch 2009. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |last-author-amp= (help)CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
  2. D.M. Leslie (2008). "Boselaphus tragocamelus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae)". Mammalian Species. 813: Number 813: pp. 1–16. doi:10.1644/813.1.