Bos

Bos (from Latin bōs: cow, ox, bull) is a genus of bovines, which includes, among others, wild and domestic cattle.

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Bos is a group of cattle-like animals that includes both wild and domesticated cattle species. It matters because these animals have been central to human civilization for thousands of years, providing food, labor, and other resources that shaped agricultural societies.

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Bos

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderArtiodactyla
FamilyBovidae

Habitatfreshwater

Observations recorded487,225

牛屬（学名：Bos）是一類牛科動物，包括多種野生與馴養動物。可分為四個亞屬，包括Bos、Bibos、Novibos以及Poephagus。不過各亞屬之間的區分仍有爭議。牛屬包含5個現存物種，其中有些受馴養的種群，过去曾因其品種之間的變異程度而一度被歸類為不同的物種，现多归类为亚种。 †尖額牛 B. acutifrons †B. aegyptiacus 印度野牛 B. gaurus 大额牛 B. g. frontalis 牦牛 B. grunniens 爪哇野牛 B. javanicus †平額牛 B. planifrons 林牛（柬埔寨野牛）B. sauveli 黄牛 B. taurus †原牛 B. t. primigenius 歐洲牛 B. t. taurus 瘤牛 B. t. indicus

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taxon name: Bos
Commons category: Bos
taxon author citation: Linnaeus, 1758

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Bos (from Latin bōs: cow, ox, bull) is a genus of bovines, which includes, among others, wild and domestic cattle.

Bos is often divided into four subgenera: Bos, Bibos, Novibos, and Poephagus, but including these last three divisions within the genus Bos without including Bison is believed to be paraphyletic by many workers on the classification of the genus since the 1980s. The genus as traditionally defined has five extant species, but this rises to eight when the domesticated varieties are counted as separate species, and ten when the closely related Bison is also included. Most but not all modern breeds of domesticated cattle (including taurine cattle and zebu) are believed to have originated from the extinct aurochs. Others like Bali cattle and gayal are thought to have originated from South and Southeast Asian Bos species.