Caucasian wisent
| Caucasian wisent | |
|---|---|
| An image of a killed Caucasian bison from E. Demidoff's book Hunting Trips in The Caucasus (1889) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bison |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | B. b. caucasicus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Bison bonasus caucasicus (Turkin & Satunin, 1904) | |
The Caucasian wisent (Bison bonasus caucasicus) or dombay (домбай) was a subspecies of European bison that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe.
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