Bubalus
Bubalus bubalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Bubalus C.H. Smith, 1827
Species
Bubalus bubalis Bubalus depressicornis Bubalus quarlesi Bubalus mindorensis Bubalus cebuensis

Bubalus is a genus of bovines, whose English name is buffalo. Species that belong to this genus are:

• Subgenus Bubalus
  • Water Buffalo, Bubalus bubalis
    • Carabao, Bubalus bubalis carabanesis
    • Water buffalo Bubalus bubalis bubalis
  • Wild Asian Water Buffalo, Bubalus arnee
  • Cebu dwarf buffalo Bubalus cebuensis †
  • Short-horned Water Buffalo, Bubalus mephistopheles †
  • Tamaraw, Bubalus mindorensis
  • European water buffalo, Bubalus murrensis †
• Subgenus Anoa
  • Lowland Anoa, Bubalus depressicornis
  • Mountain Anoa, Bubalus quarlesi

Some zoologists split the Water Buffalo into two or three species, the Domestic Asian Water Buffalo, the Philippines Carabao and the Wild Asian Water Buffalo, a rare endangered species which is the domestic buffalo's ancestor.

[edit] Dwarf Buffalo

The Tamaraw, Anoa and extinct Bubalus cebuensis are all island dwarf species of Bubalus.

[edit] See also

• List of Domestic Asian Water buffalo breeds

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Buffalo (animal).