Order Artiodactyla
Author
James H. Honacki
Author
Kenneth E. Kinman
Author
James W. Koeppl
text
1982
Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editor
James H. Honacki
Editor
Kenneth E. Kinman
Editor
James W. Koeppl
Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition)
315
343
book chapter
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Bos taurus
Linnaeus, 1766
.
Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:71
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Poland
(domesticated stock)
.
DISTRIBUTION: Originally, from
Scotland
, S.
Sweden
, and Baltic south to
Iberia
, N. Africa, and Near East. Perhaps east to W. Siberia and
Kazakhstan
(U.S.S.R.). Extinct in the wild; under domestication world wide.
COMMENT: Includes
primigenius
(extinct wild ancestor) and
indicus;
but see Corbet, 1978:206. Last wild individual, a captive, died in 1627; see
Harper, 1945
, Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World, Spec. Publ. No. 12, Amer. Comm. Intern. Wildl. Prot.,
New York
, p. 511.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009002006001 as
B. taurus
.
5301419009002004001 as
B. pritnigenius
.