Bovini
| Bovini Temporal range: 5–0 Ma Pliocene - recent | |
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| Domestic Cow | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Tribe: | Bovini Gray, 1821 |
| Genera | |
The Bovini tribe is made up of large to very large grazers, including large animals of great economic significance to humans in Domestic Cattle, Domestic buffalo, and the Yak, as well as smaller Asian relatives, and large free-roaming bovids in the African Buffalo and the American Bison.
Evolution
The closest relations to this tribe are the Boselaphini and Tragelaphini tribes. The common ancestor of all the Bovini species appears to have lived about 5–8 million years ago. The first clade to diverge was the buffalo clade (Bubalus and Syncerus species). This was followed by the banteng/gaur/gayal clade and the domestic cattle clade. A fourth clade leading to the bison and yak species may also exist.[1]
Taxonomy
- Family Bovidae
- Sub-Family Bovinae
- Tribe Bovini
- Genus Bubalus
- Wild water buffalo, Bubalus arnee
- Water Buffalo, Bubalus bubalis
- Lowland Anoa, Bubalus depressicornis
- Mountain Anoa, Bubalus quarlesi
- Tamaraw, Bubalus mindorensis
- Genus Bos
- Aurochs, Bos primigenius (extinct)
- Banteng, Bos javanicus
- Gaur, Bos gaurus
- Gayal, Bos frontalis (domestic gaur)
- Wild yak, Bos mutus
- Domestic yak, Bos grunniens
- Domestic Cattle, Bos taurus (increasingly considered a subspecies of Bos primigenius)
- Zebu, Bos indicus
- Kouprey, Bos sauveli
- Genus Pseudoryx
- Saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
- Genus Syncerus
- African Buffalo, Syncerus caffer
- Genus Bison
- American Bison, Bison bison
- Wisent, Bison bonasus
- Steppe Wisent, Bison priscus (extinct)
- Ancient Bison, Bison antiquus (extinct)
- Giant Ice-Age Bison, Bison latifrons (extinct)
- Occidental Bison, Bison occidentalis (extinct)
- Genus Pelorovis
- Pelorovis antiquus (extinct)
- Pelorovis howelli (extinct)
- Pelorovis oldowayensis (extinct)
- Pelorovis turkanensis (extinct)
- Genus Ugandax
- Ugandax gautieri (extinct)
- Ugandax coryndonae (extinct)
- Genus Bubalus
- Tribe Bovini
- Sub-Family Bovinae
References
- ↑ Maceachern S., McEwan J., Goddard M. (2009) Phylogenetic reconstruction and the identification of ancient polymorphism in the Bovini tribe (Bovidae, Bovinae). BMC Genomics 10(1):177
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