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Preferred term

Bison  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • American Buffaloes
  • Buffaloes, American

Note

  • note entry term BUFFALOES, AMERICAN: BUFFALOES is also available

Scope note

  • A genus of the family Bovidae having two species: B. bison and B. bonasus. This concept is differentiated from BUFFALOES, which refers to Bubalus arnee and Syncerus caffer.

History note

  • 91

In other languages

  • biisoni

    Finnish

  • visentti
  • Bison

    Swedish

  • Amerikansk bison
  • Bisonoxe

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016164

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