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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bubalus \Bubalus\ n. a genus of ruminants which in some classification systems is included in the genus Bos; the water buffaloes.
Syn: genus Bubalus, tribe Bubalus.
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Bubalus is a genus of bovines that was first described by Charles Hamilton Smith in 1827. This genus comprises the following living species:
- Wild Asian water buffalo Bubalus arnee ( Kerr, 1792)
- Lowland anoa Bubalus depressicornis (Smith, 1827)
- Tamaraw Bubalus mindorensis ( Heude, 1888)
- Mountain anoa Bubalus quarlesi ( Ouwens, 1910)
- and the domestic water buffalo Bubalus bubalis ( Linnaeus, 1758)
The nomenclature and classification of domestic animals as species, subspecies, races or breeds has been discussed controversially for many years and was inconsistent between authors. Assessors of the Food and Agriculture Organisation consider domestic water buffalo populations as breeds.
Usage examples of "bubalus".
Yet I must not conceal the suspicion that Paul, by a vulgar error, may have applied the name of bubalus to the aurochs, or wild bull, of ancient Germany.
Yet I must not conceal the suspicion that Paul, by a vulgar error, may have applied the name of bubalus to the aurochs, or wild bull, of ancient Germany.
Good story, but unfortunately the early Latins called Europe’s similar beast a bubalus, which was corrupted in Latin to bufalus and from that to bufalo.
The buffalo, however, or bos bubalus, "a very large and formidable animal," is afterwards distinctly mentioned by our author.