Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1766
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Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1766 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:71.
TYPE LOCALITY: Poland (domesticated stock) .
DISTRIBUTION: Originally, from Scotland, S. Sweden, and Baltic south to Iberia, N. Africa, and Near East. Perhaps east to W. Siberia and Kazakhstan (U.S.S.R.). Extinct in the wild; under domestication world wide.
COMMENT: Includes primigenius (extinct wild ancestor) and indicus; but see Corbet, 1978:206. Last wild individual, a captive, died in 1627; see Harper, 1945, Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World, Spec. Publ. No. 12, Amer. Comm. Intern. Wildl. Prot., New York, p. 511.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009002006001 as B. taurus .
5301419009002004001 as B. pritnigenius .
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