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Genus of bovines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bubalus is a genus of Asiatic bovines that was proposed by Charles Hamilton Smith in 1827. Bubalus and Syncerus form the subtribe Bubalina, the true buffaloes.
Bubalus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Subtribe: | Bubalina |
Genus: | Bubalus C. H. Smith, 1827 |
Type species | |
Bos bubalis Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Species | |
Bubalus arnee |
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and classification of domestic animals as species, subspecies, races or breeds has been discussed controversially for many years and was inconsistent between authors.[1] Assessors of the Food and Agriculture Organization consider domestic water buffalo populations as breeds.[2]
Bubalus species comprise the domestic water buffalo (B. bubalis), the wild water buffalo (B. arnee), the tamaraw (B. mindorensis), the lowland anoa (B. depressicornis), and the mountain anoa (B. quarlesi).[3] The latter two anoa species were proposed to form a subgenus Anoa within Bubalus.[4]
Smith described Bubalus as low in proportion to the bulk with very solid limbs, a small dewlap and a long, slender tail; the head is large with a strong convex-shaped narrow forehead, large eyes and funnel-shaped ears; horns are lying flat or bending laterally with a certain direction to the rear; the female udder has four mammae.[5] Lydekker added that the line of back is nearly straight with 13 pairs of ribs; the tail is tufted and reaching about to the hocks; the horns are more or less markedly triangular for the greater part of their length and situated low down on the skull; the muzzle is broad, and the hair sparse in adults.[6]
This genus comprises the following living species:[7]
Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Domestic water buffalo B. bubalis Linnaeus, 1758 | Domestic in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and China; feral populations exist in South America and Australia | |
Wild water buffalo B. arnee Kerr, 1792 | Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia | |
Lowland anoa B. depressicornis Smith, 1827 | Sulawesi in Indonesia | |
Tamaraw B. mindorensis Heude, 1888 | Mindoro in the Philippines | |
Mountain anoa B. quarlesi Ouwens, 1910 | Sulawesi | |
The 2013 checklist of the Catalogue of Life lists as "accepted" five species binomina in the genus Bubalus:
Bubalus arnee is not listed here.[8]
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System lists the same five species binomina as valid; it also lists as valid six subspecies of Bubalus bubalis:[9]
The following extinct fossil species have been described:
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