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Taxon: Family Bovidae Gray, 1821 - antelope, cattle, bison, buffalo, goats, and sheep (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Bovoidea (Clade) Simpson 1931 [Sánchez, Domingo & Morales 2010] Ref: I.M. Sánchez et al., 2010: 1040.

Subsequent positions

Bovoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1821

Original entries

Questionably Aepycerotinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1872
Questionably Alcelaphinae (Subfamily) Rochebrune, 1883
Questionably Antilopinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Questionably Bovinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Questionably Caprinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Questionably Cephalophinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1872
Questionably Damalacra (Genus) Hendey, 1981
Questionably Fenhoryx (Genus) Pei, 1958
Questionably Hanhaicerus (Genus) Huang, 1985
Questionably Hippotraginae (Subfamily) Retzius & Lovén, 1845
Questionably Hypsodontinae (Subfamily) Köhler, 1987
Questionably Hypsodontus (Genus) Sokolov, 1949
Questionably Kabulicornis (Genus) Heintz & Thomas, 1981
Questionably Kubanotragus (Genus) Gabunia, 1973
Questionably Namibiomeryx (Genus) Morales, Soria & Pickford, 1995
Questionably Neotraginae (Subfamily) Sclater & Thomas, 1894
Questionably Parabubalis (Genus) Gromova, 1931
Questionably Peleini (Tribe) Gray, 1872
Questionably Pontoceros (Genus) Vereshchagin, Alekseeva, David & Baigusheva, 1969
Questionably Procobus (Genus) Khomenko, 1913
Questionably Prodamaliscus (Genus) Schlosser, 1904
Questionably Pseudoeotragus (Genus) van der Made, 1989
Questionably Pseudotraginae (Subfamily) Schlosser, 1904
Questionably Reduncinae (Subfamily) Lydekker & Blaine, 1914
Questionably Saiginae (Subfamily) Gray, 1872
Questionably Samodorcas (Genus) Bouvrain & de Bonis, 1985
Questionably Shaanxispira (Genus) Liu, Li & Zhai, 1978
Questionably Torticornis (Genus) Dmitrieva, 1977
Questionably Tragelaphinae (Subfamily) Jerdon, 1874
Questionably Vishnumeryx (Genus) Pilgrim, 1939

Current position

Bovoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434.

Alternative positions

Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 59.
Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Ruminantia (Infraorder) Scopoli, 1777 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445.

Historical positions

Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Ruminantia (Infraorder) Scopoli, 1777 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445.
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 59.
Ruminantia (Infraorder) Scopoli, 1777 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 402.
Bovoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434-435.
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: 1995
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: P. Grubb, 1993: 393; 6.
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 130.
Bovoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 642.
Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1061.
Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975
Bovoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: G.G. Simpson, 1945

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 51g;134s;114ss; ‡1g;6s;6ss; †142g;45s;2ss
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 48g;133s; ‡1g;6s; †142g
2011 D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 59 54g;280s
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [48g; ‡1g; †142g]
1993 P. Grubb 45g;137[134]s; ‡[3s]
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [46g];~127[132]s; ‡[2s]
1982 A.F. DeBlase 5sf;17t;45g;113s
1979 T.I. Storer et al. >50g
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