Asinus

Asinus

Taxobox
name = Asses


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Perissodactyla
familia = Equidae
genus = "Equus"
subgenus = ""'Asinus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Equus asinus"
"Equus africanus"
"Equus hemionus"
"Equus kiang"

The subgenus Asinus encompasses four species and several subspecies of equidae characterized by long ears, a lean, straight-backed build, a scant tail and reputed to have considerable toughness and endurance.

The common Donkey or "Ass" is the best-known representative of the Subgenus, with both domesticated and feral varieties, ranging in size from the small "burro" to the horse-sized "Mammoth Jack" and other breeds. There is not a formal cutoff between the terminology "donkey" and "ass," though smaller animals are usually called donkeys and larger animals are asses. Both can be used to create a mule, which is a hybrid animal produced by a cross of a donkey and a horse.

"Wild asses", include a number of truly wild, never domesicated subspecies of "Equus Asinus" that live in Africa and Asia. The closest relative to "Equus africanus" is the Grevy's zebra.Fact|date=December 2007 They have similiarties, including small herds, longer ears and the skull is more ass shape.Fact|date=December 2007

Taxonomy

* Genus: "Equus"
** Subgenus "Asinus"
*** Donkey, "Equus asinus"
*** African Wild Ass, "Equus africanus"
**** Nubian Wild Ass, "Equus africanus africanus"
**** Somali Wild Ass, "Equus africanus somalicus"
**** Atlas Wild Ass, "Equus africanus atlanticus" (extinct)
*** European Ass, "Equus hydruntinus" (extinct)
*** Onager or Asiatic Ass, "Equus hemionus", "Equus hemionus onager"
**** Mongolian Wild Ass, "Equus hemionus hemionus"
**** Syrian Wild Ass, "Equus hemionus hemippus" (extinct)
**** Gobi Kulan or Dziggetai , "Equus hemionus luteus"
**** Turkmenian Kulan, "Equus hemionus kulan"
**** Indian Wild Ass or Khur, "Equus hemionus khur"
*** Kiang, "Equus kiang"
**** Western Kiang, "Equus kiang kiang"
**** Eastern Kiang, "Equus kiang holdereri"
**** Southern Kiang, "Equus kiang polyodon"
**** Northern Kiang, "Equus kiang chu"


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