Bovina (subtribe)

For other uses, see Bovina.

Bovina
Temporal range: Late Miocene - present, 13.7–0 Ma [1]
Texas Longhorn cattle (Bos taurus; top image) and a herd of American bison (Bison bison; bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Tribe: Bovini
Subtribe: Bovina
Gray, 1821
Type genus
Bos
Genera
Synonyms
  • Bibovina (Rütimeyer, 1865 sensu Mekayev, 2002)
  • Bistonia (Rütimeyer, 1865)
  • Poephagina (Mekayev, 2002)
  • Pseudonovibovina (Kuznetsov et al., 2002)

Bovina is a subtribe of the Bovini tribe that generally includes the two living genera, Bison and Bos.[2] However, this dichotomy has been challenged recently by molecular work that suggests that Bison should be regarded as a subgenus of Bos.[3][4][5][6] Wild bovinans can be found naturally in North America and Eurasia (although domestic and feral populations have been introduced worldwide).[7]

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  2. ^ Wilson, W.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  3. ^ Lenstra, J.A.; Bradley, D.G. (1999). "Systematics and phylogeny of cattle". The Genetics of Cattle. CAB International. pp. 1–14.
  4. ^ Groves, C.; Grubb, P. (2011). Ungulate Taxonomy. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  5. ^ Bibi, F. (2013). "Phylogenetic relationships in the subfamily Bovinae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) based on ribosomal DNA". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (166): 166. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-166. PMC 3751017. PMID 23927069.
  6. ^ Hassanin, A.; An, J.; Ropiquet, A.; Nguyen, T.T.; Couloux, A. (2013). "Combining multiple autosomal introns for studying shallow phylogeny and taxonomy of Laurasiatherian mammals: Application to the tribe Bovini (Cetartiodactyla, Bovidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (3): 766–775. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.003. PMID 23159894.
  7. ^ Castelló, J.R. (2016). Bovids of the Word. Princeton University Press.