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Bison bonasus
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Description
Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:71.
TYPE LOCALITY: Bialowieza Forest, Poland.
DISTRIBUTION: Europe, originally from S Sweden south to the Pyrenees Mtns and Balkans east to R. Don and W Caucasus Mtns (Russia), surviving in France until about 6th century, in Germany, Rumania and W Russia into 18th century and in Caucasus Mtns and Poland until early part of present century; extinct except where now reintroduced to E Poland, W Russia, and Caucasus Mtns.
STATUS: IUCN - Vulnerable.
SYNONYMS: arbustotundrarum, caucasicus, europaeus, hungarorum, nostras, urus.
COMMENTS: Considered conspecific with bison by Bohlken (1967) and Van Zyll de Jong (1986); but not included in B. bison by Meagher (1986). Reviewed by Flerov (1979).
Notes
Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 400, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D512126ADB13FF832DB5D3C3F8F80501 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205140339 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB13FF832DB5D3C3F8F80501.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Bison
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- bonasus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- Bohlken, H. 1967. Beitrag zur Systematik der rezenten Formen der Gattung Bison H. Smith, 1827. Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 5: 54 - 110.
- van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1986. A systematic study of Recent bison, with particular consideration of the wood bison (Bison bison athabascae Rhoads 1898). Publications in Natural Sciences, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Canada, 6: 1 - 69.
- Meagher, M. 1986. Bison bison. Mammalian Species, 266: 1 - 8.
- Flerov, C. C. 1979. Sistematika i evolyutsiya [Systematics and evolution]. Pp. 9 - 127, in Zubr: Morfologiya, sistematika, evolyutsiya, ekologiya [European bison: Morphology, systematics, evolution, ecology] (V. E. Sokolov, ed.). Nauka, Moscow, 495 pp. (in Russian).