Tetracerus quadricornis

(de Blainville, 1816)

Chowsingha

Side view of male feeding
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Location: India, West Bengal, Calcutta (Kolkata) ZooDate taken: Jan 1, 1976

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 868

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Pecora
Superfamily : Bovoidea
Family : Bovidae
Subfamily : Bovinae
Tribe : Boselaphini
Genus : Tetracerus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Blainville, H.-M.D. de. 1816. Sur plusieurs espèces d'animaux mammifères, de l'ordre des ruminans. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société philomatique de Paris (1814-1824) 1816:73-82.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153431

Original name as described

Antilope Quadricornis

Other common names

Four-horned Antelope

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1946.335

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/a564337b-5603-4087-80a6-3ba2216ec957

Type locality

India.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

India · Nepal

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006255

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 31 names and synonyms.

Antilope Quadricornis

(de Blainville, 1816)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

quadricornis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1946.335

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/a564337b-5603-4087-80a6-3ba2216ec957

Authority page

75

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4153431

Authority publication

Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société philomatique de Paris (1814-1824)

Name usages

  1. Schinz (1821:395 (footnote), https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51529156) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  2. Desmarest (1822:466, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521910) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36189)
  3. Hardwicke (1825:524, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/752905) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68501)
  4. Smith (1827:256, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264355) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59866)
  5. Lesson (1827:381, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207848) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  6. Fischer (1829:471) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  7. Ogilby (1839:lxxiii, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2912390) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67483)
  8. Gervais (1840:262) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67281)
  9. Laurillard (1841:624, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57482962) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60622)
  10. Lesson (1842:178) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

Tetracerus Striaticornis

É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1824

Family

Bovidae

Root name

striaticornis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

pl. 383 p. 2

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53183226

Authority publication

Paris

Tetracerus Undicornis

É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1824

Family

Bovidae

Root name

undicornis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

pl. 383 p. 2

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53183226

Authority publication

Paris

Antilope Chickara

(Hardwicke, 1825)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

chickara

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type kind

syntypes

Authority page

520

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/752899

Authority publication

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London

Name usages

  1. Hardwicke (1825:520, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/752899) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68501)
  2. Smith (1827:254, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264353) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59866)
  3. Lesson (1827:381, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207848) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  4. Gervais (1840:262) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67281)
  5. Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Tetraceros striatocornis

(Brookes, 1828)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

striatocornis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

64

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Antilope Chikara

(J. B. Fischer, 1829)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

chikara

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

471

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1829:471) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  2. Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Labipes

(F. Cuvier in É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1832)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

labipes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

notpublishedwithageneric_name

Authority page

pl. 364

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44518485

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Antilope Tetracornis

(B. H. Hodgson, 1835)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

tetracornis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

525

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37189784

Authority publication

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Name usages

Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

Tetracerus quadricornes

Jardine, 1835

Family

Bovidae

Root name

quadricornes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

225

Authority publication

Naturalist's Library

Antilope chicara

(Kaup, 1835)

Family

Bovidae

Root name

chicara

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

179

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45992767

Authority publication

Darmstadt

Name usages

Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)

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