Caucasian wisent

Caucasian wisent
An image of a killed Caucasian bison from E. Demidoff's book Hunting Trips in The Caucasus (1889)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bison
Species:
Subspecies:
B. b. caucasicus
Trinomial name
Bison bonasus caucasicus
(Turkin & Satunin, 1904)

The Caucasian wisent (Bison bonasus caucasicus) or dombay (домбай)[2] was a subspecies of European bison that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe.

  1. ^ Plumb, G.; Kowalczyk, R.; Hernandez-Blanco, J.A. (2020). "Bison bonasus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T2814A45156279. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T2814A45156279.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WWFRussia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).