Caucasian wisent
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The Caucasian wisent (Bison bonasus caucasicus) or dombay (домбай)[2] was a subspecies of European bison that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe.
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Caucasian wisent | |
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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) |
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