Bubalus arnee (Kerr, 1792)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 188

326. Bubalus arnee (Kerr, 1792)

Common name: Asian Wild Buffalo

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Thailand and possibly in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. In Myanmar, recorded in Rakhine State (South Rakhine Yoma; Geissmann et al. 2008).

Remarks: The wild species of water buffalo was considered as B. arnee ; while the domestic forms as B. bubalis ( Gentry et al. 2004) . Three subspecies were recognized: B. a. arnee (much of India and Nepal); B. a. fulvus (Assam and neighboring areas); and B. a. theerapati (Southeast Asia). This is an endangered and completely protected species of Myanmar.