Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > BovidaeBovidae (antelopes, cattle, gazelles, goats, sheep, and relatives) EndangeredSynonyms: Adenota mengesi; Antilope koba; Antilope mazama; Antilope temamazama; Antilopidae; Catoblepas brookii; Cervus guineensis; Ixalus; Ixalus probaton The Bovidae are the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes bison, African buffalo, water buffalo, antelopes, gazelles, sheep, goats, muskoxen, and domestic cattle. A member of this family is called a bovid. Consisting of 143 extant species and 300 known extinct species, the family Bovidae consists of eight major subfamilies apart from the disputed Peleinae and Pantholopinae. The family evolved 20 million years ago, in the early Miocene. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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