Budorcas is a genus of bovid that contains a single living species, the takin (Budorcas taxicolor). Two extinct species are known from the Pliocene, B. teilhardi from China and B. churcheri from Ethiopia. The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past. Etymology Budorcas comes from and . References Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Brian Houghton Hodgson Caprids Mammals described in 1850