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Tetracerus quadricornis (four-horned antelope)

Synonyms: Cerophorus quadricornis (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis), or chousingha, is a small antelope found in India and Nepal. This antelope has four horns, which distinguish it from most other bovids, which have two horns (sparing a few such as the Jacob sheep). The sole member of the genus Tetracerus, the species was first described by French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1816. Three subspecies are recognised. The four-horned antelope stands nearly 55–64 centimetres (22–25 in) at the shoulder and weighs nearly 17–22 kilograms (37–49 lb). Slender with thin legs and a short tail, the four-horned antelope has a yellowish brown to reddish coat. One pair of horns is located between the ears, and the other on the forehead. The posterior horns are always longer than the anterior horns, whic
View Wikipedia Record: Tetracerus quadricornis

Infraspecies

Tetracerus quadricornis iodes
Tetracerus quadricornis quadricornis
Tetracerus quadricornis subquadricornutus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Tetracerus quadricornis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
51
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.68
EDGE Score: 4.07
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  41.888 lbs (19.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  2.302 lbs (1.044 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Gestation [1]  7 months 2 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  39 inches (100 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Prey / Diet

Cucumis sativus (garden cucumber)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Thrips tabaci (Onion thrip)1

Predators

Canis lupus (Wolf)[5]
Cuon alpinus (Dhole)[6]
Panthera pardus (Leopard)[6]
Panthera tigris (Tiger)[5]
Panthera tigris tigris (Bengal tiger)[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4NEW SITE REPORTS OF FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPE Tetracerus quadricornis (BLAINVILLE), Vinayak K. Patil and Sanjay G. Bhave, Tigerpaper, Vol. 36: No. 4 October-December 2009, p. 20-22
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Tetracerus quadricornis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), DAVID M. LESLIE, JR. AND KOUSTUBH SHARMA, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 843:1–11 (2009)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0