Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details

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Taxonomy

Accepted name		Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827

Taxonomic rank		Species

Taxonomic status		valid

Taxonomic comment		EXTINCT; (Wilson, D. E. & D. M. Reeder , Eds 1993)

Nomenclature and Synonyms

Genus group name(s)	Taxonomic comment
Bos Linnaeus 1758 [genus]
no synonyms present in the database for this taxon

Species group name(s)	Original genus	Taxonomic comment
primigenius Bojanus 1827 [species]	Bos	EXTINCT; (Wilson, D. E. & D. M. Reeder , Eds 1993)
= taurus Linnaeus 1758	Bos

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Rank	Name
Kingdom	Animalia
Subkingdom	Eumetazoa
Phylum	Chordata
Subphylum	Vertebrata
Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
Class	Mammalia
Subclass	Eutheria
Order	Artiodactyla
Family	Bovidae
Genus	Bos
Species	*primigenius*

Distribution

Experts

Name	Fauna Europaea status
Bogdanowicz, Prof. Dr Wieslaw	group coordinator
Bogdanowicz, Prof. Dr Wieslaw	taxonomic specialist

References

Accepted name:

Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827

Author	Year	Title	Source
Pucek Z. , Ed	1981	Keys to vertebrates of Poland. Mammals.	PWN -- Polish Scientific Publishers, Warszawa, 367pp.
Wilson, D. E. & D. M. Reeder , Eds	1993	Mammal Species of the World	Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1206 pp.
Zagorodniuk I. V. , Ed.	1999	Mammals of Ukraine, protected by the Bern Convention	Proceedings of the Theriological School, vol. 2, Kyiv, 222 pp.

Species synonyms:

= taurus Linnaeus 1758

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