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Bos (ox)

Mammalia - Bovidae

Taxonomy

Bos was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Bovinae, Bovina.

It was assigned to Pecora by Linnaeus (1758); to Bovina by Gray (1825); to Ruminantia by Owen (1848); to Ruminantia by Leidy (1860); to Bovina by Hassanin and Douzery (1999); to Bovinae by Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Bovidae by Lydekker (1878), Lydekker (1880), Wilson (1967), Carroll (1988), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995) and Burney et al. (2008); and to Bovini by Grubb (2001), Hassanin and Douzery (2003) and Gentry (2010).

Species

B. acutifrons, B. bubaloides (syn. B. praeafricanus), B. caffer, B. chinensis, B. frontalis, B. gaurus, B. grunniens (syn. B. bunnelli), B. indicus, B. javanicus, B. makapaani, B. namadicus (syn. B. falconerianus), B. palaethiopicus, B. planifrons, B. platyrhinus, B. primigenius, B. sauveli, B. taurus

Species lacking formal opinion data

B. buiaensis, B. elatus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Bos Linnaeus p. 71
1825	Bos Gray p. 342
1848	Bos Owen p. 139
1860	Bos Leidy p. 110
1878	Bos Lydekker
1880	Bos Lydekker
1967	Bos Wilson p. 219
1980	Bos Kurten and Anderson p. 339
1988	Bos Carroll
1995	Bos Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 252
1999	Bos Hassanin and Douzery p. 899
2001	Bos Grubb p. 375
2003	Bos Hassanin and Douzery p. 212
2008	Bos Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Fig. 5
2008	Bos Burney et al. p. 19
2010	Bos Gentry p. 755

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Artiodactylamorpha
—	Artiodactyla	()
—	Ruminantiamorpha
—	Ruminantia	(Scopoli 1777)
—	Pecora	()
family	Bovidae
subfamily	Bovinae	(Gray 1821)
tribe	Bovini	Gray 1821
genus	Bos

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Bos Linnaeus 1758 [ox]

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†Bos acutifrons Lydekker 1877

†Bos bubaloides Arambourg 1979

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Invalid names: Bos praeafricanus Arambourg 1979 [synonym]

†Bos caffer Sparman 1779 [African buffalo]

†Bos chinensis Gray 1873

Bos frontalis Lambert 1804 [gayal]

Bos gaurus Smith 1827

Bos grunniens Linnaeus 1766 [yak]

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Invalid names: Bos bunnelli Frick 1937 [synonym]

Bos indicus Linnaeus 1758

Bos javanicus d'Alton 1823

†Bos makapaani Broom 1937

†Bos namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847

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Invalid names: Bos falconerianus Falconer 1860 [objective synonym]

†Bos palaethiopicus Arambourg 1979

†Bos planifrons Lydekker 1877

†Bos platyrhinus Lydekker 1878

†Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827

Bos sauveli Urbain 1937

Bos taurus Linnaeus 1758 [cow]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available