Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

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Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:71.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Africa, Asia."

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, originally from S. Sweden south to the Pyrennees Mtns., Balkans, and Caucasus Mts.; now reintroduced to E. Poland, W. Soviet Union, and Caucasus Mtns.

COMMENT: Considered conspecific with bison by some authors; see Corbet, 1978:206; but see also Corbet and Hill, 1980:122. According to Heptner et al., 1961, [Mammals of the Soviet Union], Vyssha Shkola, p. 388, type locality probably Belovezhskaya Pushcha (= Forest), Poland.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009001002001.