Bubalus grovesi Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Holocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Bubalus |
Subgenus: | Anoa |
Species: | †B. grovesi
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Binomial name | |
†Bubalus grovesi Rozzi, 2017[1]
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Bubalus grovesi is an extinct species of water buffalo that lived in southern Sulawesi during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.[1]
B. grovesi was an extremely small buffalo species, estimated at only 117 kg (258 lb).[1] It experienced a body size reduction of about 90% from the typical water buffalo. The closest relatives of B. grovesi are the living anoa, which still inhabit Sulawesi today.[2]