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Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Syst. Nat., 10th ed. vol.1 p.71

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Artiodactyla
family
Bovidae
genus
Bos
species
Bos taurus

Name

Synonyms
Bos domestic
Homonyms
Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758
Common names
Aurochs in language.
Aurochs in English
Aurochs in English
Aurochs in English
Aurochs in English
Betizu in Basque
Boeuf domestique, Vache domestique in French
Cow in English
Cow, Park Cattle in English
Cow, Park Cattle in English
Domestic Cattle (feral) in English
Domesticated Cattle in English
Domesticated cattle in English
Domesticated cattle in English
Domesticated cattle in English
Hausrind in language.
Toro, vaca in Spanish
Urus in language.
Wildrind in German
aurochs in English
aurochs in English
aurochs in English
cattle in language.
cow in English
domestic cattle (feral) in English
domestic cattle (feral) in English
domesticated cattle in English
domesticated cattle in English
Ватусі, порода ВРХ in Ukrainian
Domestic Cattle in English
Domestic Cattle in English
nötkreatur in Swedish
storfe in Norwegian Bokmål
storfe in Nynorsk, Norwegian
European Domestic Cattle in English
European Domestic Cattle in English
Park Cattle in English
Park Cattle in English

Bibliographic References

  1. CABI Invasive Species Compendium (2017bo), https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/91651
  2. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 22 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology of (a) the specific names of fifty-seven species, each of which is the type species of a genus in the class Mammalia, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936, and (B) of the specific names of two species belonging to the same class, each of which is currently regarded as the oldest available name for the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List in the same period.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C(C13), 179-200 (1955)
  3. McClory and Gotthardt (2008), https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/species/nonnative/invasive/pdfs/invasivespp_report.pdf
  4. Wilson & Reeder (2005) Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic reference
  5. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
  6. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
  7. Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204.
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