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| | Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Tarpan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Groves (1986) has proposed Equus ferus Boddaert, 1785 to replace Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758, because Linnaeus' type was a domestic horse; guidelines are recommended by Corbet and Clutton-Brock (1984). |
 | | We choose instead to follow Wilson and Reeder (1993), using the scientific name of the domesticated form (if older) to refer to both conspecific domesticates and their wild ancestors. |
 | | Synonyms are: Equus ferus Boddaert, 1785, Equus ferus ferus Boddaert, 1785, Equus sylvestris Brincken, 1828, Equus ferus sylvestris (Brincken, 1828), Equus caballus sylvestris (Brincken, 1828), Equus gmelini Antonius, 1912, Equus ferus gmelini (Antonius, 1912), Equus caballus gmelini (Antonius, 1912), and Equus gmelini silvatica Vetulani, 1927. |
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