Taxon profile

family

cattle, antelopes, sheep and goats
Bovidae Gray, 1821

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata - chordates » class Mammalia - mammals » order Cetartiodactyla - even-toed ungulates » infraorder Pecora

Scientific synonyms

Cavicornia

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Temporal range:	Tertiary > Neogene > Miocene > Lower Miocene – recent

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Images

Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa - Defassa Waterbuck, male

Author: Petr Pivoňka

Bison bison bison - Plains Bison

Author: Jiří Bohdal

Antidorcas marsupialis - Springbok

Author: Lubomír Prause

Bovidae in BioLib

Functions restricted to taxon Bovidae

Important groups

Bovinae, Antilopinae

Included taxa

Number of records: 17

subfamily Bovinae Gray, 1821

subfamily Antilopinae Gray, 1821

Fossil taxa

subfamily Hypsodontinae Köhler, 1987 ^†

genus Brabovus Gentry, 1987 ^†

genus Etruria Abbazzi, Delfino, Gallai, Trebini & Rook, 2008 ^†

genus Euthyceros Athanassiou, 2002 ^†

genus Hanhaicerus Huang, 1985 ^†

genus Namacerus Morales, Soria, Pickford & Nieto, 2003 ^†

genus Palaeoreas Gaudry, 1861 ^†

genus Prodamaliscus Schlosser, 1904 ^†

genus Pseudobos Schlosser, 1903 ^†

genus Pseudoeotragus van der Made, 1989 ^†

genus Sivatragus Pilgrim, 1939 ^†

genus Torticornis Dmitrieva, 1977 ^†

genus Turritragus Abbazzi, Delfino, Gallai, Trebini & Rook, 2008 ^†

Nomina dubia ^dub.

genus Kobikeryx Pilgrim, 1939 ^† ^dub.

genus Tragospira Kretzoi, 1954 ^† ^dub.

Links and literature

Žirafy - antilopy [http://www.zirafy-antilopy.cz]

The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [104796]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [http://www.irmng.org] [as Bovidae Gray, 1821]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

Australian Faunal Directory [45bea42c-7ed4-440f-ac9b-61d6403759ef]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Bovidae]
Data retrieved on: 8 February 2015

Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Bovidae]

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^dub. nomen dubium - name of unknown or doubtful application

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