Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 401

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Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:71 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Upsala according to Thomas (1911a); but Linnaeus (1758) cited "Habitat in Poloniae", possibly refering to the Aurochs, which he recognized as conspecific with domestic cattle .

DISTRIBUTION: Europe and W Russia to the Middle East, surviving at least into the Iron Age in the Middle East; extinct in the wild, except in Poland, by commencement of 15th century; last wild individual died in 1627. Distributed worldwide under domestication; feral populations in Spain, France, Australia, New Guinea, USA, Colombia, Argentina and many islands, including Hawaiian, Galapagos, Dominican Republic / Haiti, Tristan da Cunha, New Amsterdam and Juan Fernandez Isis.

SYNONYMS: bunnelli, indicus , primigenius .

COMMENTS: Includes primigenius (extinct wild ancestor) and indicus ; but see Corbet (1978c:206).

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.

Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.