Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1766

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 315-343 : 328-329

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scientific name	Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1766
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Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1766 View in CoL . 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 .

References

Harper, F. 1945. Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World. Special Publication, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, New York, 12: 1 - 850.