Kouprey

Kouprey
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene–Holocene[1]
The holotype specimen, a young bull at the Paris Zoological Park, 1937

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bos
Species:
B. sauveli
Binomial name
Bos sauveli
Urbain, 1937
Geographic range
Synonyms

Bos (Bibos) sauveli (Urbain, 1937)[3]
Novibos sauveli (Coolidge, 1940)

The kouprey (Bos sauveli), also known as the forest ox and grey ox, is a possibly extinct species of forest-dwelling wild bovine native to Southeast Asia. It was first scientifically described in 1937. The name kouprey is derived from the Khmer language and means "forest ox".[4]

The kouprey is listed as Critically Endangered and possibly extinct on the IUCN Red List.[2] The last confirmed sighting of a wild individual took place in 1969.[5]

  1. ^ Suraprasit, K.; Jaegar, J.-J.; Chaimanee, Y.; Chavasseau, O.; Yamee, C.; Tian, P.; S. Panha (2016). "The Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Khok Sung (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand): biochronological and paleobiogeographical implications". ZooKeys (613): 1–157. Bibcode:2016ZooK..613....1S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.613.8309. PMC 5027644. PMID 27667928.
  2. ^ a b c Timmins, R.J.; Burton, J. & Hedges, S. (2016). "Bos sauveli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T2890A46363360. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T2890A46363360.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  3. ^ Urbain, A. (1939). "Note complémentaire sur le Bæuf sauvage du Cambodge (Bos (Bibos) Sauveli Urbain)". Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. 2. 11 (6): 519–520.
  4. ^ "Kouprey". www.wwf.org.kh. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  5. ^ Oon, A. (2022). "Politics of Extinction: On the trail of Cambodia's kouprey". Southeast Asia Globe. Retrieved 2023-06-21.