The wild water buffalo, also called Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo and wild buffalo, is a large bovine native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It was first described in 1792.
Indian Water Buffalo Bubalus arnee by Dr Raju Kasambe IMG 0347
Water buffalo sculpture, Lopburi, Thailand, 2300 BCE
Skull of a wild water buffalo in the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology
A herd of wild water buffaloes in Kaziranga National Park, Assam
Bubalus is a genus of Asiatic bovines that was proposed by Charles Hamilton Smith in 1827. Bubalus and Syncerus form the subtribe Bubalina, the true buffaloes.
Wild water buffalo
…classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Subfamily: Bovinae Genus: Bubalus Species: B. arnee Binomial name Bubalus arnee (Kerr, 1792) Subspecies B. a. arnee B. a. fulvus B. a. septentrionalis B. a. migona Wild water buffalo…