Bos sauveli

Urbain, 1937

Kouprey

Statue of adult male showing distal splitting of horns. Also as Gray Ox, Indochinese Forest Ox.
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Location:Cambodia, Phnom PenhDate taken:1 January 2005Description:Statue of adult male showing distal splitting of horns. Also as Gray Ox, Indochinese Forest Ox.

Distribution :

Cambodia, S Laos, SE Thailand, and W Vietnam; possibly extinct.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 3706

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Ruminantia
Infraorder: Pecora
Superfamily: Bovoidea
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Tribe: Bovini
Genus: Bos
Subgenus: Novibos

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Urbain, A. 1937. Le kou prey ou bœuf gris cambodgien. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 62(5):305-307.

Authority publication link

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54444228/f357.item

Original name as described

Bos (Bibos) Sauveli

Other common names

Gray Ox · Indochinese Forest Ox

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1940-1222 (= MNHN:type:559) (= MNHN-ZM-AC-1940-51) (= MNHN "Peaux 5")

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Cambodia, near Tchep Village.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Cambodia · Laos? · Thailand? · Vietnam?

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006266

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 2 names and synonyms.

Bos (Bibos) Sauveli

Urbain, 1937

Family

Bovidae

Root name

sauveli

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1940-1222 (= MNHN:type:559) (= MNHN-ZM-AC-1940-51) (= MNHN "Peaux 5")

Type kind

lectotype

Original type locality

certaines régions du Nord Cambodge

Type locality

Cambodia.

Authority page

307

Authority page URI

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54444228/f357.item

Authority publication

Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France

Name usages

Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951:382, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722683) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31900)
Corbet & Hill (1980:122) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:328) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:131) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Grubb (1993:401) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69016)
Grubb (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8535)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2011:574) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67176)
Groves & Grubb (2011:113) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/30388)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #2890) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #2890) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006266) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2890/46363360) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Novibos sauveli:

Coolidge, 1940

Family

Bovidae

Root name

sauveli

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

426

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4373700

Authority publication

Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Name usages

Coolidge (1940:426, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4373700) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68615)

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