Editing Zebu (section)

==Taxonomy==
Both [[scientific name]]s ''Bos taurus'' and ''Bos indicus'' were introduced by [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758, with the latter used to [[Species description|describe]] humped cattle in [[China proper|China]].<ref name=Linnaeus/>

The zebu was classified as a distinct [[species]] by [[Juliet Clutton-Brock]] in 1999,<ref name=Clutton-Brock1999>{{Cite book |title=A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals |last=Clutton-Brock |first=J. |author-link=Juliet Clutton-Brock |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |date=1999 |isbn=978-0-521-63495-3 |oclc=39786571 |orig-year=1987 |edition=Second |page=85 |chapter=Asiatic cattle |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgL-EbbB8a0C&pg=PA85}}</ref> but as a [[subspecies]] of the domestic [[cattle]], ''Bos taurus indicus'', by both Clutton-Brock and [[Colin Groves]] in 2004<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gentry |first1=Anthea |last2=Clutton-Brock |first2=Juliet |last3=Groves |first3=Colin P |title=The naming of wild animal species and their domestic derivatives |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |date=May 2004 |volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=645–651 |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2003.10.006 |bibcode=2004JArSc..31..645G }}</ref> and by [[Peter Grubb (zoologist)|Peter Grubb]] in 2005.<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Artiodactyla |id=14200687 |pages=645–646 |heading=Subspecies ''Bos taurus indicus''}}</ref> In 2011, Groves and Grubb classified it as a distinct species again.<ref>{{cite book |first1=C. |last1=Groves |first2=P. |last2=Grubb |year=2011 |title=Ungulate taxonomy |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |pages=8–9 |chapter=Domestication |isbn=978-1-4214-0093-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3uZtA1ZpTAC&pg=PA9}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=September 2023}}

The [[American Society of Mammalogists]] considers it part of the species ''Bos taurus'' in analogy to [[Sanga cattle]] (''Bos taurus africanus'' {{small|[[Robert Kerr (writer)|Kerr]],&nbsp;1792}}).<ref name=ASM21>{{Cite journal |author=American Society of Mammalogists |author-link=American Society of Mammalogists |title=''Bos taurus'' |url=https://www.mammaldiversity.org/explore.html#genus=Bos&species=taurus&id=1006267 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501164649/https://www.mammaldiversity.org/explore.html#genus=Bos&species=taurus&id=1006267 |url-status=live |archive-date=May 1, 2023 |journal=ASM Mammal Diversity Database |date=2021}}</ref> The [[International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]] has not yet published a ruling on the classification of domestic derivatives and no scientific body advocates the abolition of the [[Species concept#Mayr's biological species concept|biological species concept]] for domestic animals.

Currently (2024s), it is not correct to describe Zebu animals as '''''Bos taurus indicus''''', but rather as '''''Bos indicus''''',<ref name="ACIR Community"/> because they are a different species from ''Bos taurus''. The extinct wild aurochs (''Bos primigenius'') population diverged into two distinct genetic strains: the humpless ''Bos taurus'' (taurine) and the humped ''Bos indicus'' (indicine or zebu).<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Utsunomiya |first1=Y. T. |last2=Milanesi |first2=M. |last3=Fortes |first3=M. R. S. |last4=Porto-Neto |first4=L. R. |last5=Utsunomiya |first5=A. T. H. |last6=Silva |first6=M. V. G. B. |last7=Garcia |first7=J. F. |last8=Ajmone-Marsan |first8=P. |date=December 2019 |title=Genomic clues of the evolutionary history of Bos indicus cattle |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/age.12836 |journal=Animal Genetics |language=en |volume=50 |issue=6 |pages=557–568 |doi=10.1111/age.12836 |pmid=31475748 |issn=0268-9146}}</ref>