Bubalina

Bubalina
Temporal range: Late Miocene - present,
Feral water buffalo
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Tribe: Bovini
Subtribe: Bubalina
Rütimeyer, 1865
Type species
Bubalus bubalis
Genera
  • Bubalus C. H. Smith, 1827
  • Hemibos (Falconer, 1865)
  • Parabos (Arambourg & Piveteau, 1929)
  • Proamphibos (Pilgrim, 1939)
  • Syncerus Hodgson, 1847
  • Ugandax Cooke & Coryndon, 1970
Synonyms
  • Buffelinae (Knottnerus-Meyer, 1907)
  • Syncerina (Pilgrim, 1939)

Bubalina is a subtribe of wild cattle that includes the various species of true buffalo. Species include the African buffalo, the anoas, and the wild water buffalo (including the domesticated variant water buffalo). Buffaloes can be found naturally in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia, and domestic and feral populations have been introduced to Europe, the Americas, and Australia. In addition to the living species, bubalinans have an extensive fossil record where remains have been found in much of Afro-Eurasia.

Despite being sometimes referred to as buffaloes, bison are not members of the Bubalina, but are instead classified in the subtribe Bovina.

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