Syncerus
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Genus of mammals
Syncerus | |
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Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) | |
Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Subtribe: | Bubalina |
Genus: | Syncerus Hodgson, 1847 |
Type species | |
Bos brachyceros [1] | |
Species | |
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Syncerus is a genus of African bovid that contains the living Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), including the distinct African forest buffalo.
At least one extinct species belongs to this genus; Syncerus acoelotus .[2] [3] The extinct giant African buffalo (Syncerus antiquus ) is also included in this genus by many authorities.[4]
References
[edit ]- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). "Genus Syncerus". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Syncerus acoelotus". Fossilworks. Archived from the original on 2021年12月12日. Retrieved 2021年12月17日.
- ^ Gentry, A.W.; Gentry, A. (1978). "Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Part 1". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology. 29: 289–446.
- ^ Klein, Richard G. (November 1994). "The Long-Horned African Buffalo (Pelorovis antiquus) is an Extinct Species". Journal of Archaeological Science. 21 (6): 725–733. doi:10.1006/jasc.1994.1072 .
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