The Nature LibraryEN·ES
GBIF·2441055speciesAnimalia186,840 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusCapra
Capra ibex
Wikimedia Commons, via Wikidata. Click for the photographer and licence.
Capra ibex: field photographsCapra ibex: field photographsCapra ibex: field photographsCapra ibex: field photographsCapra ibex: field photographsCapra ibex: field photographs

Images attached to GBIF records (field photographs), from . Open licences; click for the record.

IUCN LC · Least concern

Alpine Ibex

Capra ibex Linnaeus, 1758

Also calledAlp Keçisi (tur) · Alp dağ keçisi (aze) · Alpen-Steinbock (deu) · Alpensteenbok (nld) · Alpensteinbock (deu) · Alpesteinbukk (nor) · Alpesteinbukk (nob) · Alpestenbuk (dan) · Alpetar basahuntz (eus) · Alpi kaljukits (est) · Alpinis ožys (lit) · Alppikauris (fin) · Alpski kozorog (slv) · Alpstenbock (swe)

First described in: Syst. Nat., 10th ed. vol.1 p.68

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

eunis habitat

Inland unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats (H level 1)

DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe

distribution

Distribution: Formerly the Alps of Austria, France, Germany, N Italy, and Switzerland; extinct except in Italy but reintroduced into its former range.

Order Artiodactyla

materials_examined

Type Locality: " Habitat in Wallesiae praeruptis inaccessis "; identified as Switzerland, Valais by Thomas (1911 a: 152).

Order Artiodactyla

distribution

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly the mountains of France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and N Italy; extinct except in Italy but now reintroduced into much of its former range.

Order Artiodactyla

§·

Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Capra ibex in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2441055.