Bubalus arnee
(Kerr, 1792)
Asian Wild Buffalo
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Artiodactyla |
Suborder | : Ruminantia |
Infraorder | : Pecora |
Family | : Bovidae |
Subfamily | : Bovinae |
Tribe | : Bovini |
Genus | : Bubalus |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia. A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 462 pp.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664362Original name as described
Bos Arnee
Other common names
Asiatic Buffalo · Indian Buffalo · Water Buffalo
Type locality
India, north from Bengal. Restricted by Harper in 1940 to Koch Behar, India.
Biogeographic realm
Indomalaya · Palearctic
Country distribution
India · Nepal · Bhutan? · Myanmar · Sri Lanka · Thailand · Cambodia
Taxonomy notes
wild form of B. bubalis
Taxonomy notes citation
Gentry, A., Clutton-Brock, J., & Groves, C. P. (2004). The naming of wild animal species and their domestic derivatives. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31(5), 645-651.
IUCN Red List status
Endangered
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