Nemorhaedus caudatus

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Artiodactyla; Bovidae; Nemorhaedus; Nemorhaedus caudatus; Stripe; Canis lupus; Lynx
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6773123; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6773123

218. Long-tailed Goral Nemorhaedus caudatus French: Goral a longue queue / German: Nordchina-Goral / Spanish: Goral colilargo Other common names: Chinese Goral, Manchurian Long-tailed Goral Taxonomy. Antilope caudata Milne-Edwards, 1867, Russia (Amurland). Previously classified as a subspecies of N. goral. N. c. raddeanus is a synonym. Analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene indicates that Long-tailed Goral populations in Korea may be genetically distinct from populations in China. The generic name was originally spelled Naemorhedus, but the spelling Nemorhaedus, despite being an unjustified emendation, is “in prevailing” usage and is used here. Monotypic. Distribution. Russian Far East, NE China (Nei Mongol and Hebei E to Heilongjiang), and Korean Peninsula; apparently W to extreme SE Mongolia. Descriptive notes. Head—body 109-132 cm (males) and 106-135 cm (females), tail 14— 18 cm (males) and 13-17 cm (females) but 37-48 cm to tip oftail hairs, shoulder height 69-75 cm, ear 11.5-15 cm; weight 26-47 kg (males) and 24-45 kg (females). Horn length ¢.15-18 cm, up to 23-5 cm (males), horn basal girth ¢.7-10 cm (males). Body color of the Long-tailed Goral is brown;legs are creamy to yellow-gray, with dark line on front of foreleg; and the dorsal stripe is usually inconspicuous. Underside pale, groin and axillae white, throat white extending forward to chin, and tail usually black and appears long and bushy due to length oftail hairs. Diploid chromosome numberis 56. Habitat. The Long-tailed Goral occupies precipitous terrain with cliff component at elevations of 80-2000 m. In Russia, they occur in seashore cliffs, usually at 100-300 m, and in inland montane areas of mixed pine forests and oak woodlands at 300-800 m. They use slopes of 45-90° and can tolerate snow cover up to 35 cm. Major predators are Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) and Eurasian Lynxes (Lynx lynx). Food and Feeding. In Russia, diet of the Long-tailed Goral varies seasonally, butis primarily graminoids (77-82% seasonally). Browse dominates the diet ...