Oxen

[wkellis]

Oxen per itis.usda.gov:
Bos Linnaeus
with children:
Bos frontalis
Bos grunniens
Bos javanicus
Bos sauveli
Bos taurus

In Clue Ox is a child of bos taurus indicus X Bos taurus taurus.
I cannot find any other resources that indicated this is the species; please advise. thanks

[Jeff Wilcke]

As I read ITIS and CLUE:

1) The Genus is Bos (not Bos Linnaeus). In ITIS, it appears that the "namer" is listed on the line with all levels down to GENUS and Lineaus happened to name cattle. If you click on Bos Taurus, the new hierarchy has "bos" highlighted as a link not Bos Linnaues. (At the top of the page only Bos is bold).

2) I don't exactly know where OX came from (in SNOMED/CLUE) but don't believe that it is supposed to be the same thing as OXEN.

3) SNOMED has Genus Bos which (perhaps) should have a synonym OXEN, but it's children appear to be correct.

We have maintained a little inconsistency with ITIS in the cattle, as most in the "business" seem to recognize that Bos Taurus does not equal Bos Indicus or that there are perhaps subspecies of Bos Taurus (the way we actually did it).

Logically, then we are not out of synch with ITIS. We have an extra split after Bos Taurus that ITIS does not seem to recognize. As the "business" seems pretty attached to European cattle are not Indian Cattle, I decided not to make an sudden changes.

[wkellis]

Ox in SNOMED has a synonym Oxen.
Yes, it seems that Oxen should be a synonym of Genus Bos. I'll ignore
'ox' in SNOMED for now and go to the genus. thanks