Cantabrian chamois
| Cantabrian chamois | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| Genus: | Rupicapra |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | R. p. parva
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| Trinomial name | |
| Rupicapra pyrenaica parva (Cabrera, 1914)
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| Distribution of Cantabrian chamois in 2008. | |
The Cantabrian chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica parva) is a slim mountain goat-antelope, and is one of the 10 subspecies of the genus Rupicapra. It ranges the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain, with a population of 17,000 animals in 2007-2008.