Bubalus

Smith described Bubalus as low in proportion to the bulk with very solid limbs, a small dewlap and a long, slender tail; the head is large with a strong convex-shaped narrow forehead, large eyes and funnel-shaped ears; horns are lying flat or bending laterally with a certain direction to the rear; the female udder has four mammae. Lydekker added that the line of back is nearly straight with 13 pairs of ribs; the tail is tufted and reaching about to the hocks; the horns are more or less markedly triangular for the greater part of their length and situated low down on the skull; the muzzle is broad, and the hair sparse in adults. ==Species==

This genus comprises the following living species: Valid names The 2013 checklist of the Catalogue of Life lists as "accepted" five species binomina in the genus Bubalus: • Bubalus bubalis Linnaeus, 1758 • Bubalus depressicornis Smith, 1827 • Bubalus mephistopheles Hopwood, 1925 • Bubalus mindorensis Heude, 1888 • Bubalus quarlesi Ouwens, 1910 Bubalus arnee is not listed here. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System lists the same five species binomina as valid; it also lists as valid six subspecies of Bubalus bubalis: • Bubalus bubalis arnee Kerr, 1792 • Bubalus bubalis bubalis Linnaeus, 1758 • Bubalus bubalis fulvus Blanford, 1891 • Bubalus bubalis kerabau Fitzinger, 1860 • Bubalus bubalis migona Deraniyagala, 1952 • Bubalus bubalis theerapati Groves, 1996 '' Fossil species The following extinct fossil species have been described: • Bubalus brevicornis - Young, 1936 • Bubalus cebuensis (Cebu tamaraw) - Croft, Heaney, Flynn and Bautista, 2006 • Bubalus fudi - Guo, 2008 - (possibly a subspecies of Bubalus wansijocki) • Bubalus grovesi - Rozzi, 2017 • Bubalus mephistopheles (Short-horned water buffalo) - Hopwood, 1925 • Bubalus murrensis (European water buffalo) - Berckhemer, 1927 • Bubalus palaeokerabau (Long-horned Javan water buffalo) - E. Dubois, 1908 • Bubalus platyceros - Lydekker, 1877 • Bubalus teilhardi - Young, 1932 • Bubalus wansijocki - Chardin, 1928 • Bubalus youngi - Chow and Hsu, 1957 ==See also==