Caucasian wisent
| Caucasian wisent | |
|---|---|
| An image of a killed Caucasian bison from E. Demidoff's book Hunting Trips in The Caucasus (1889) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bison |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †B. b. caucasicus
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Bison bonasus caucasicus (Turkin & Satunin, 1904)
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The Caucasian wisent (Bison bonasus caucasicus), also known as the Eurasian bison or dombay (домбай) is an extinct subspecies of European bison that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe.