Kouprey
A little-known, forest-dwelling, wild bovine species from Southeast Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Kouprey | |
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The holotype specimen, a young bull at the Paris Zoological Park, 1937 | |
Scientific 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 | |
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Synonyms | |
Bos (Bibos) sauveli (Urbain, 1937)[3] |
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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]