Cilentana Nera

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Cilentana Nera
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not at risk [1] : 67 
  • DAD-IS (2025): at risk/critical [2]
Country of originItaly
Distribution province of Salerno
Standard MIPAAF
Usemainly meat [3] : 353 
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    65 kg [4]
  • Female:
    50 kg [4]
Height
  • Male:
    76 cm [4]
  • Female:
    70 cm [4]
Skin colourblack
Coatblack
Face colourblack
Horn status60% are horned [5]
Beardusually bearded
Tasselsin about 50% of cases
  • Goat
  • Capra aegagrus hircus

The Cilentana Nera is an Italian breed of domestic goat indigenous to the province of Salerno, in Campania in southern Italy. It takes its name from the geographical region of the Cilento, much of which is today within the Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni, and is raised mainly in that area and in the Monti Alburni. The range extends to the Monti Picentini [3] : 352  and to the area of Ricigliano in eastern Campania and Muro Lucano in Basilicata. [4] It is one of three goat breeds in the Cilento, the others being the Cilentana Grigia and the Cilentana Fulva. The Cilentana Nera is found on higher ground and on poorer pasture than the other two, and is raised mainly for meat. It has been influenced by the Garganica and Napoletana goat breeds. [3] : 352 

The Cilentana Nera is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders. [6] : 95  [7] In the 1980s numbers were very low, and in 1983 the breed was thought to be close to extinction; however, a census in 2008 found 3683 head, [3] : 353  and at the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 2403 [8] and as 2098. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN   9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 Breed data sheet: Cilentana Nera / Italy (Goat). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN   9788850652594.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Lorenzo Noè, Alessandro Gaviraghi, Andrea D'Angelo, Adriana Bonanno, Adriana Di Trana, Lucia Sepe, Salvatore Claps, Giovanni Annicchiarico, Nicola Bacciu (2005). Le razze caprine d'Italia (in Italian); in: Giuseppe Pulina (2005). L' alimentazione della capra da latte. Bologna: Avenue Media. ISBN   9788886817493, pages 381–435. Archived 5 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Norme tecniche della popolazione caprina "Cilentana Nera": standard della razza (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Archived 23 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine. Archived 21 September 2013.
  7. ↑ Strutture Zootecniche (Dec. 2009/712/CE - Allegato 2 - Capitolo 2) (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali. Section I (e). Archived 4 May 2014.
  8. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza L5 Cilentana Nera Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Archived 23 September 2015.


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