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 http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352976 d2154b0a-e0b7-4b56-bb6c-61d84ce4d9e1 0-89327-235-3 7352976 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 .