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); Upham et al., 2019: Data S3.
Ruminantia (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 304.
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.
Ruminantia (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 304.
Bovoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 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

2026	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