BOVIDAE, Gray, 1821

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2011, Bovidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 2 Hoofed Mammals, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 444-779 : 571

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6512484

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6581173

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scientific name

BOVIDAE
status

 

Family BOVIDAE View in CoL

(HOLLOW-HORNED RUMINANTS)

• Fairly small to very large ruminants with hollow horns in males or in both sexes with a bony core, growing directly from the skull, and toes encased in sturdy hooves.

• 40-480 cm. View Figure

• Holarctic, Afrotropical, and Indo-Malayan Regions. View Figure

• From desert and open plains, through forest to mountain areas; from cold temperate zones to tropics.

• 54 genera, 279 species,at least 348 extant taxa.

• 10 species Critically Endangered, 25 species Endangered, 52 species Vulnerable; 1 species Extinct in the Wild; 2 subspecies and 10 species Extinct since 1600.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Bovidae

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