Ovibos
Appearance

Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Bovidae
Subfamilia: Caprinae
Genus: Ovibos
Species (1): O. moschatus
Name
[edit]Ovibos Blainville, 1816: 76 [conserved name]
- Type species: Bos moschatus Zimmermann, 1780, by subsequent designation by Elliot (1901).
- Gender: masculine.
- Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 91 (1926: 2) and Direction 24 (1955: 222).
Synonyms
[edit]- Bosovis Kowarzik, 1911
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Blainville, H. de. 1816. Sur plusieurs espèces d'animaux mammifères, de l'ordre des ruminans. Bulletin des sciences, par la Société philomathique de Paris 73–82. BHL Reference page.
- International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature. 1926. Opinion 91. Thirty-five generic names of Mammals placed on the Official List of Generic Names. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4): 1–2. BHL Reference page.
- International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Direction 24. Completion of the entries relating to the names of certain genera in the class Mammalia made on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C: 219–246. BHL Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]- dansk: Moskusokse
- Deutsch: Moschusochse
- English: Musk Ox
- español: Buey Almizclero
- français: Boeuf Musqué
- italiano: Bue Muschiato
- 日本語: ジャコウウシ属
- Nederlands: Muskusos
- norsk nynorsk: Moskusfe
- norsk: Moskus
- português: Boi-almiscarado
- svenska: Myskoxe