Kouprey
| Kouprey Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene–Holocene | |
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| The holotype specimen, a young bull at the Paris Zoological Park, 1937 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bos |
| Species: | B. sauveli |
| Binomial name | |
| Bos sauveli Urbain, 1937 | |
| Geographic range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bos (Bibos) sauveli (Urbain, 1937) | |
The kouprey (Bos sauveli), also known as the forest ox and grey ox, is a possibly extinct species of forest-dwelling wild bovine native to Southeast Asia. It was first scientifically described in 1937. The name kouprey is derived from the Khmer language and means "forest ox".
The kouprey is listed as Critically Endangered and possibly extinct on the IUCN Red List. The last confirmed sighting of a wild individual took place in 1969.
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