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Rocky Mountain Goat
Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville, 1816)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Bovidae - cattle, antelopes, sheep and goats »  genus Oreamnos

Scientific synonyms

Rupicapra americana de Blainville, 1816
Mazama dorsata Rafinesque, 1817

Type taxon of:Oreamnos Rafinesque, 1817 (Mazama dorsata Rafinesque, 1817)

Images


juvenile animal

Oreamnos americanus - Rocky Mountain Goat

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Taxon in country check-lists*

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Intertaxon relationships

parasite: Marshallagia lichtenfelsi Hoberg, Abrams, Pilitt & Jenkins, 2012

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [42680]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville, 1816)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006201]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville, 1816)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Oreamnos americanus de Blainville, 1816]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [242:schneeziege-oreamnos]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville, 1816)]

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