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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]]. |
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]]. |
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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,<ref>http://www.archive.today/8T67D |
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,<ref>http://www.archive.today/8T67D</ref> and the subspecies is now entirely extinct.<ref name=Tokarska2011>{{cite journal | author = Tokarska, M. | year = 2011 | title = Genetic status of the European bison ''Bison bonasus'' after extinction in the wild and subsequent recovery | journal = Mammal Review | volume = 41 | issue = 2 | pages = 151–162 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2010.00178.x|display-authors=etal}}</ref> |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bison |
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| Subspecies: | †B. b. hungarorum
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Bison bonasus hungarorum (Kretzoi, 1946)
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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
- ^ http://www.archive.today/8T67D
- ^ 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.
External links
- The Extinction Website - Carpathian European Bison - Bison bonasus hungarorum.
- European bison / Wisent
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