Bos frontalis
Sign in to saveThe gayal (Bos frontalis), also known as mithun or Drung ox, is a large semi-domesticated cattle in the Himalayan foothills of Indian Subcontinent and primarily in Northeast India.
Taxonomy · GBIF
Gayal
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderArtiodactyla
- FamilyBovidae
Observations103
Groupmammalia
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6 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Characteristics
- Distribution and habitat
- In culture
- National Research Centre on Mithun
- References
The gayal (Bos frontalis), also known as mithun or Drung ox, is a large semi-domesticated cattle in the Himalayan foothills of Indian Subcontinent and primarily in Northeast India.
== Taxonomy == In his first description of 1804, Aylmer Bourke Lambert applied the binomial Bos frontalis to a domestic specimen probably from Chittagong.