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Carpathian wisent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bison
[2][3][4][5]
Species:
Subspecies:
B. b. hungarorum
Trinomial name
Bison bonasus hungarorum
(Kretzoi, 1946)

The Carpathian wisent (Bison bonasus hungarorum[2][3][4][5]) is an extinct subspecies of the European bison that inhabited the Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia and Transylvania regions of Europe.[1]

Extinction

It began to die out about a hundred years earlier than its close relative, the Caucasian wisent (Bison bonasus caucasicus) and was hunted to extinction in the 19th century.[1] The last known Carpathian wisent was shot in Marmaros, Austrian Empire in 1852.[6]

Trivia

Starting in 2014, wisents of the closely related lowland subspecies (Bison bonasus bonasus) were reintroduced into the southern Carpathians from Poland by Rewilding Europe and the World Wide Fund for Nature. The rewilding area hosted a population of 30 animals by the end of 2017.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ a b Verkaar, Edward L. C.; Nijman, Isaäc J.; Beeke, Maurice; Hanekamp, Eline; Lenstra, Johannes A. (July 2004). "Maternal and Paternal Lineages in Cross-Breeding Bovine Species. Has Wisent a Hybrid Origin?". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21 (7): 1165–1170. doi:10.1093/molbev/msh064. ISSN 1537-1719.
  3. ^ a b Zver, Lars; Toškan, Borut; Bužan, Elena (10 September 2021). "Phylogeny of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison species in Europe and North America". Quaternary International. 595: 30–38. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.04.022. ISSN 1040-6182.
  4. ^ a b Wang, Kun; Lenstra, Johannes A.; Liu, Liang; Hu, Quanjun; Ma, Tao; Qiu, Qiang; Liu, Jianquan (19 October 2018). "Incomplete lineage sorting rather than hybridization explains the inconsistent phylogeny of the wisent". Communications Biology. 1 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0176-6. ISSN 2399-3642.
  5. ^ a b Grange, Thierry; Brugal, Jean-Philip; Flori, Laurence; Gautier, Mathieu; Uzunidis, Antigone; Geigl, Eva-Maria (September 2018). "The Evolution and Population Diversity of Bison in Pleistocene and Holocene Eurasia: Sex Matters". Diversity. 10 (3): 65. doi:10.3390/d10030065. ISSN 1424-2818.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  6. ^ "După 200 de ani, zimbrul se întoarce în Carpaţi FOTOGALERII". archive.is (in Romanian). 23 March 2012. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Southern Carpathians". Rewilding Europe.