Bos grunniens Linnaeus, 1766 . Syst. Nat, 12th ed., 1:99.

TYPE LOCALITY: Boreal Asia (domesticated stock) .

DISTRIBUTION: Sinkiang, Tibet, Tsinghai, Szechwan (China); Ladak (N India); Nepal; domesticated in C Asia.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as B. (= [sic] grunniens) mutus; U.S. ESA - Endangered as B. g. mutus; IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: mutus .

COMMENTS: Includes mutus; but see Corbet (1978c:206). Formerly placed in Poephagus . Reviewed by Olsen (1990).