Bison | |
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American bison (Bison bison) | |
European bison (Bison bonasus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Faimily: | Bovidae |
Subfaimily: | Bovinae |
Tribe: | Bovini |
Genus: | Bison Hamilton Smith, 1827 |
Species | |
B. bison |
Bison are lairge, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison athin the subfaimily Bovinae.
Twa livin an fower extinct species are recognisit. O the fower extinct species, three wur North American: Bison antiquus, B. latifrons, an B. occidentalis. The fowert, B. priscus, rangit athort steppe environs frae Wastren Europe, throu Central Asie, East Asie includin Japan,[1][2] an ontae North Americae.