The Sciara or Moscia Calabrese is an indigenous
breed
A breed is a specific group of domestic animals having homogeneous appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species. In literature, there exist several slig ...
of domestic
sheep from the provinces of
Catanzaro and
Cosenza
Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populati ...
, in
Calabria
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in southern Italy.
[ It is a hardy and frugal breed, well adapted to the poor and stony upland terrain of the area.][ Sources from the early 20th century describe it as dark-coloured; according to the breed standard, it should be white.][
It is one of the forty-two autochthonous local sheep breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the ]Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia
The Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, or roughly "national association of pastoralists", is the Italian national body responsible for the administration of sheep- and goat-breeding. It maintains the herd books for more than a hundred i ...
, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders;[ the herdbook is empty.][ The breed numbered about 15,000 in 1983. No numbers have been reported to DAD-IS or published since that date.][
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References
Sheep breeds originating in Italy
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