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NOTES A new locality record for the kouprey from Viet-Nam, and an archaeological record from China by Robert S. HOFFMANN Museum of Natural History and Department of Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A. Present address : National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A. The kouprey (Bos sauveli) was the last large mammal to be named scientifically (Urbain, 1937). The description was based on a living animal in the Vincennes Zoological Park (Paris), which was subsequently designated the holotype (Urbain 1939). It died « early in World War II » (Anon., n.d.), and probably is preserved in Paris ; the live animal originated from near Tchep (Chheb Kandal), Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia). Coolidge (1940) reviewed the status of the species, noting that only two localities were then definitely known ; the type locality, and Samrong (Samerong) south of Kratf (Krachen), Kampuchea, where an adult male kouprey (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., no. 38108) and a frontlet (American Museum of Natural History, New York, no. 89003) were obtained. Since that time only three additional specimens with definite locality data have been obtained, to my knowledge although a number of sight records have been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mammalia - International Journal of the Systematics, Biology and Ecology of Mammals de Gruyter

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A new locality record for the kouprey from Viet-Nam, and an archaeological record from China by Robert S. HOFFMANN Museum of Natural History and Department of Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A. Present address : National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A. The kouprey (Bos sauveli) was the last large mammal to be named scientifically (Urbain, 1937). The description was based on a living animal in the Vincennes Zoological Park (Paris), which was subsequently designated the holotype (Urbain 1939). It died « early in World War II » (Anon., n.d.), and probably is preserved in Paris ; the live animal originated from near Tchep (Chheb Kandal), Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia). Coolidge (1940) reviewed the status of the species, noting that only two localities were then definitely known ; the type locality, and Samrong (Samerong) south of Kratf (Krachen), Kampuchea, where an adult male kouprey (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., no. 38108) and a frontlet (American Museum of Natural History, New York, no. 89003) were obtained. Since that time only three additional specimens with definite locality data have been obtained, to my knowledge although a number of sight records have been

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Mammalia - International Journal of the Systematics, Biology and Ecology of Mammals – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1986

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