Species of Thailand
Sumatran serow
Capricornis sumatraensis
Johann Matthäus Bechstein, 1799
In Thai: เลียงผา
The Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), also known as the southern serow, is a species of goat-antelope native to mountain forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The former name of this species is "mainland serow", as all the mainland species of serow (Chinese, red and Himalayan) used to be considered subspecies of this species. The Sumatran serow is threatened due to habitat loss and hunting, leading to it being evaluated as vulnerable by the IUCN.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Capricornis
- Species
- Capricornis sumatraensis
Common names
- German: Südliche Serau
- English:
- Sumatran serow
- Southern serow
- Spanish: Serau común
- French:
- Capricornis sumatraensis
- Saro de Sumatra
- Italian: Capricornis
- Dutch: Sumatraanse bosgems
- Russian:
- Суматранский серау
- суматранский сероу
- обыкновенный сероу
- Swedish:
- Sydlig serov
- Sumatraserov
- Thai: เลียงผา
Synonyms
- Capricornis sumatraensis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1799)
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN3.1)