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| Bovini | |
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| Water Buffalo | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Tribe: | Bovini Gray, 1821 |
| Genera | |
The Bovini tribe is made up of large to very large grazers, including large animals of great economic significance to humans in Domestic Cattle, Domestic buffalo, and the Yak, as well as smaller Asian relatives, and large free-roaming bovids in the African Buffalo and the American Bison.
Taxonomy
- Family Bovidae
- Sub-Family Bovinae
- Tribe Bovini
- Genus Bubalus
- Water Buffalo, Bubalus bubalis
- Lowland Anoa, Bubalus depressicornis
- Mountain Anoa, Bubalus quarlesi
- Tamaraw, Bubalus mindorensis
- Genus Bos
- Aurochs, Bos primigenius (extinct)
- Banteng, Bos javanicus
- Gaur, Bos gaurus
- Gayal, Bos frontalis (domestic gaur)
- Yak, Bos mutus
- Domestic Cattle, Bos taurus (increasingly considered a subspecies of Bos primigenius)
- Zebu, Bos indicus
- Kouprey, Bos sauveli
- Genus Pseudonovibos
- Kting Voar, Pseudonovibos spiralis (existence not proven)
- Genus Pseudoryx
- Saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
- Genus Syncerus
- African Buffalo, Syncerus caffer
- Genus Bison
- American Bison, Bison bison
- Wisent, Bison bonasus
- Steppe Wisent, Bison priscus (extinct)
- Genus Bubalus
- Tribe Bovini
- Sub-Family Bovinae
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