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| subspecies = hungarorum
| subspecies = hungarorum
| authority = ([[Miklós Kretzoi|Kretzoi]], 1946)
| authority = ([[Miklós Kretzoi|Kretzoi]], 1946)
| extinct = yes
| extinct = 1852
| image = Wisent Hunt on stamp Hungary 1971.jpg
| image = Wisent Hunt on stamp Hungary 1971.jpg
| caption = Hunting stamp
| caption = Hunting stamp

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Carpathian wisent
File:Wisent Hunt on stamp Hungary 1971.jpg
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bison
Species:
Subspecies:
B. b. hungarorum
Trinomial name
Bison bonasus hungarorum
(Kretzoi, 1946)

The Carpathian wisent (Bison bonasus hungarorum) was a subspecies of European bison that inhabited the Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia, and Transylvania. It may also have lived in what are today Ukraine and Hungary.

It began to die out about a hundred years earlier than its very close cousin, the Caucasian wisent, probably because it lived nearer to Central Europe. The last Carpathian wisent was shot in Maramureș in 1852,[1] and the subspecies is now entirely extinct.[2]


See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.archive.today/8T67D[dead link]
  2. ^ Tokarska, M.; et al. (2011). "Genetic status of the European bison Bison bonasus after extinction in the wild and subsequent recovery". Mammal Review. 41 (2): 151–162. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.2010.00178.x.