List of water buffalo breeds
Breeds
The domestic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, is descended from the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), now designated an endangered species. Buffalo have been bred, predominantly in Asia, for thousands of years for use by humans.

List of water buffalo breeds

Section Title: Breeds
Table Section Text: The domestic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, is descended from the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), now designated an endangered species. Buffalo have been bred, predominantly in Asia, for thousands of years for use by humans.

Name	Picture	Alternate name	Origin	Use	Notes, references

Al-Ahwar	see § Iranian and Iraqi	§ Iraqi marsh buffalo

Al Jamoose or Jimes (= water buffalo)	see § Iraqi

Anatolian buffalo	-	Turkish: Anadolu Mandasın, regional: Camız, Camış, Kömüş, Dombay	Turkey: Marmara and Black Sea region, and South Turkey	dairy, draught	of § Mediterranean type

Assam	A male buffalo before it's sacrifice which took place on the occassion of Durga Puja in Kalibari Temple, Silchar, Assam.JPG	NE India	Swamp-type

Australian buffalo	-	Australian Swamp Buffalo, Riverine Buffalo (river-type), Australiano (in Venezuela)	Australia's Northern Territory	feral Swamp buffalo imported from eastern Indonesian islands in the 1820s; river-type buffalo were imported in the 1990s

Azari	Azeri, Azerbaijan, Iranian, Caucasian	Azerbaijan, NW Iran	§ Caucasian buffalo; Iranian Azari (=ecotype of § Iranian) comprises 70% of the Iranian buffalo population

Azi Kheli	-	NW Pakistan: Swat valley	dairy	light brown or albinoid milking buffalo

Badavan	see § Bhadawari

Baio	Vermelho	N Brazil: Marajó	dual-purpose meat and milk	Swamp type; colour labels separate the type from typically black (preto) South American River breeds; considered a naturalized type or genetic group rather than a breed, categorization similar to § Brazilian Carabao

Baladi (= local or native)	Egypt	dairy	Delta's milking variety of the § Egyptian buffalo; has longer curved horns, is black or grey in colour; varieties of the Baladi type are the § Beheri and the § Minufi buffalo

Balkan	see § European

Bama kwye	see § Burmese

Bangladeshi	-	Bangladesh	dairy, draught	native buffalo of Bangladesh's flood plaines; include both a black indigenous River type (western and central areas) and small grey indigenous Swamp buffalo (eastern areas); see also § Mahish

Bangladeshi, albinoid of the central part of the country	Bangladesh	dairy	type of § Bangladeshi buffalo, farmed semi-intensively for milk

Bangladeshi, albinoid of the western part of the country	Bangladesh	draught	smallest (average height 126/121 cm) of the § Bangladeshi buffaloes

Bangladeshi, native buffaloes in the central part	Bangladesh	black indigenous River type of § Bangladeshi

Bangladeshi, native buffaloes in the eastern part	Bangladesh	smaller grey indigenous § Bangladeshi Swamp buffalo with white stockings and sometimes white spots on each side of the face; crescent horns

Bangladeshi, native buffaloes in the southern part	Bangladesh	dairy	larger than native buffaloes of that area.

Bangladeshi, native buffaloes in the western part	Bangladesh	black indigenous River type of § Bangladeshi

Banni	-	W India: Kachchh (Kutch) region of Gujarat	diary	developed by the semi-pastoralist Maldhari community

Beheri	Egypt: Beheira province	dairy	variety of the § Egyptian buffalo of § Baladi type; slate grey or black in colour

Belang	see § Tadong

Bhadawari	-	Badavan, Etawah	India: Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh	dairy, draught	selectively improved River type

Bhainsi	see § Nepalese

Bhavanegri	see § Jafarabadi

Binhu	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Borneo buffalo	see § Kalang and § Malaysian (kerbau § Sawah)

Brazilian	Kalabaw, Kalaban Portuguese: bufalo de pantano (= Swamp buffalo) Portuguese: preto (= typically black River breeds)	Brazil	Swamp buffalo types descended from stock originating from French Indochina including the black Philippine Carabao; initially imported in about 1890 to Marajó Island (most are still found today there); see §§ Brazilian Carabao, Rosilho, and Baio River types from India, Italy and Egypt were imported in the early to mid-20th century; there are three River breeds recognized: § Jafarabadi § Mediterranean § Murrah

Brazilian carabao	Kalaban	Brazil	meat and draught Swamp buffalo	own herdbook in Brazil, described as a naturalized genetic group rather than a breed; there is a variety with the name § Rosilho

Búfalo de Pantano	Cuba

Búfalo de Rio	2012-02-Cayo Saetia Wasserbueffel 01 anagoria.JPG	Cuba

Buffalypso	-	Trinidadian buffalo (sometimes called bison or hog cattle)	Trinidad and Tobago	specialized meat and haulage buffalo	derives from crosses between Swamp-type § Carabao and River breeds (as § Murrah, § Nili-Ravi, § Jafarabadi, § Surti, § Nagpuri, and § Bhadawari); has a refined head, prominent eyes, small flat compact horns growing back, up and in, short in the leg, low compact body, meaty hindquarters, straight topline; typically Buffalypso are red or fawn, colors include black, brown, albinoid; exported to 19 countries (the USA and several Latin American countries)

Bulgarian buffalo	Bulgaria	work, meat, dairy	regional variety of the typical European, i.e. the § Mediterranean; traditionally of strong muscular working type, became triple-purpose animals; the indigenous Bulgarian buffalo is now extinct

Bulgarian Murrah	-	Bulgarian: Българска мyрра, Bulgarska murra	Bulgaria	dairy	derives from crosses of Mediterranean buffalo with Indian Murrah (and Surti) buffalo imported from 1962; is black, black/brown or dark grey, has large black eyes, coiled horns, a wide rump, long tail, voluminous belly, dep broad chest, a short wide back often slightly dipped, well developed udder suited to machine milking; is now rare in its homeland; exported to Romania and South America

Burmese	-	Burma (Myanmar); locally: Bama Kwye and Pa Sauk Kwye (kwye or kywe = buffalo)	Myanmar	Swamp buffalo; vary locally in size, color and horn shape; the larger § Shan Kwye is classified as a distinct 'breed' Burmese wild buffalo is a feral gayal (or mithun)

Burmese wild buffalo	Burmese: pyaung, pyun also referred to as: Burmese gaur (Bos gaurus readai or Bos gaurus laosiensis) Burmese bison	Myanmar	wild buffalo in Burma are a gaur subspecies (Bos gaurus readai or B. g.

Cambodian buffalo	Tier Wasserbüffel den es juckt Kambodscha.JPG	Cambodia	varieties: krabei beng moi (or § mountain buffalo) krabei leu (or krabei sre)

Carabao	-	Philippines	dairy, meat, draught	Swamp

Caucasian	Georgia, Russian Federation	dairy, meat

Chilika	A close-up of Buffalo1.JPG	India	River type; saline-tolerant, well adapted to Orissa's vast brackish lagoon at the mouth of the Daya River

Chinese buffalo	-	China	varieties: §§ Haizi​ and Mountainous buffalo, § Shanghai (incl. the Jiangsu Round-Barrel), §§ Dongliu, Wenzhou, Fu'an, Xiajiang, Xinfeng Mountainous, Xinlong, Fuzhong, Binhu, Enshi Mountainous, Jianghan, Xingyang, Shannan, Fuling, Yanjin, Dehong, South-east Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guizhou White buffalo

De	Vietnam

Dechang	China

Dehong	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Domaci bivo	Serbia

Dongliu	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Egyptian	-	Masri	Egypt	dairy, draught	River type; can be loosely divided both geographically and ba type into two groups: longer-horned local types of the Delta: milking § Baladi, incl.

Enshi Mountainous	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Fu'an	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Fuling	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Fuzhong	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Gaddi	Nepal

Georgian buffalo	Georgia

Ghab	Syria

Gilani	Mazandarani, Shomali	Iran	minor northern ecotype of § Iranian, see § Caucasian

Godavari	-	India

Greek buffalo	-	Greece

Guizhou	China

Guizhou White	-	China

Haizi	China

Iranian and Iraqi	Iran and Iraq	dairy	mainly River types

Iranian	see § Iranian and Iraqi	Iranian buffalo by ecotype: Mazandarani, § Gilani or Shomali (minor northern ecotype, see § Caucasian) § Azari (70% of Iranian buffalo population) § Khuzestani or Khoozestani (ecotype of the southern marshes)

Indonesian Wild buffalo	-	Indonesian Water buffalo, Indonesian Swamp buffalo, Indonesian buffalo	Indonesia	Semi feral buffalo breed, introduced to Komodo and Flores

Iranian Azari Ecotype	see § Azari	ecotype of § Iranian

Iraqi	Al Jamoose, Jimes = water buffalo other: Dwab (Dauab), Granish	Iraq	dairy, meat, ridden work animal	Iraqi buffalo are divided by habitat into "marsh" and "city", or into § Al Ahwar marsh buffalo and the larger and milkier River type of urban areas with considerable diversity in colour

Italian	Bufala Agro Pontino.JPG	Italian: Bufala Mediterranea Italiana, Italian Mediterranean, Mediterranean Italian, Italiano (in Venezuela)	Italy	dairy	of § Mediterranean type (riverine); Mediterranean Italian dairy buffalo have been exported to Brazil and other parts of Latin America

Jafarabadi	-	India	dairy

Jaffrabadi	Gujarat	Dairy

Jerangi	India

Jianghan	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Kalaban	Brazil

Kalahandi	-	India

Kalang	-	Borneo buffalo (in English), kerbau-Rawa (in Indonesian), kerbau Sawah (in Malaysia)	Indonesia: Kalimantan	Swamp buffalo; in the Malaysian part of the island (i.e. Sarawak and Sabah) the buffalo is known as kerbau Sawah (see § Malaysian)

Kebo	Indonesia

Kerbau-Gunung	Indonesia

Kerbau-Indonesia	Indonesia

Kerbau Moa	Indonesia

Kerbau-Murrah	Indonesia

Kerbau-Sumatra-Barat	Indonesia

Kerbau-Sumatra-Utara	Indonesia

Kerbau-Sumbawa	Indonesia

Khoozestani	Khuzestani	Iran	§ Iranian ecotype of the southern marshes

Kundi	Kundhi, Sindhi Murrah	E Pakistan: N Sindh	dairy	River type; some would designate it as regional variety of the § Murrah

Lanka	-	Sri Lanka

Lime	Nepal

Mahish	Bangladesh	variety of § Bangladeshi, crossed with indigenous Swamp buffalo, river type dominant

Malaysian	-	kerbau	Malaysia	varieties: kerbau § Sapi Tenusu kerbau § Sawah § Selembu

Manda	India

Mannar	Sri Lanka

Marathwada	India

Masri	see § Egyptian

Mediterranean	Mediterranean

Mehsana	-	India	dairy

Mestizo	Philippines

Minufi	Minufi, Menoufi or Monoufi	Egypt: southern and central parts of the Delta	dairy	variety of the § Egyptian buffalo of § Baladi type; dark grey in colour

Monouli	Egypt

Mountain buffalo	moi	Cambodia	variety of the krabei beng § Cambodian buffalo

Mountainous	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Munding	Indonesia

Murrah	Murrah buffalo.JPG	India, Pakistan	dairy	also Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Guatemala, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam

Myanmar Swamp buffalo	see § Burmese

Nagpuri	Berar, Durna-Thalia, Ellichpuri, Gaulani, Gauli, Marathwada, Varadi	W India: Maharashtra	draught, dairy	varieties: Purnathadi § Pandharpuri

Nelore	Argentina

Nepalese Hill	Buffallow rearing in nepal.JPG	Nepal

Nepalese Mountain	Nepal

Ngo	Vietnam

Nili	E Pakistan, N India	see § NiliRavi

NiliRavi	Panch Kalyani	E Pakistan, N India	dairy	combination of two fairly similar Pakistan buffalo Nili and Ravi; formerly described as geographically isolated varieties of the § Murrah exported to Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Brazil

Pa Sauk	see § Burmese

Pahadi	see § Nepalese

Palitana	see § Jafarabadi

Pampangan	see § Indonesian

Panch Kalyani	see § Nili-Ravi

Pandharpuri	Dharwari (in Mysore)	India	dairy	see § Nagpuri

Papua New Guinea buffalo	Papua New Guinea

Parkote	see § Nepalese

Parlakimedi	see § Manda

Peddakimedi	see § Kalahandi

Philippine	see § Carabao

Plain buffalo	Cambodia

Purnathadi	see § Nagpuri

Purvi	see § Nepalese

Ravi	Sandal Bar	E Pakistan, N India	see § Nili-Ravi

Rawa	see § Kalang

Romanian buffalo	Aruncuta,Cluj-DSCF2327.JPG	Romania	dairy, meat, draught

Rosilho	Brazil	variety of the § Brazilian Carabao

Siamese buffalo	-	Thai Water buffalo, Thai Swamp buffalo (in English), Kwai Thai, Karbue (in Thailand),	Thailand	dairy, meat, draught	Swamp type

Saidi	Egypt

Sambalpur	India

Sapi Tenusu	kerbau Sapi Tenusu	Malaysia	dairy	variety of § Malaysian; River-type

Sawah	kerbau Sawah; Borneo buffalo	Malaysia	variety of § Malaysian; Swamp buffalo

Selembu	Malaysia	variety of § Malaysian; very rare interspecies hybrid by crossing single gaur with local Sahiwal x Friesian cows; resembles the wild gaur

Shanghai	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Shan Kywe	Swamp buffalo of the elevated Shan Plateau in eastern central Burma	Myanmar	larger and heavier and darker in colour than other § Bumese buffalo; classified as a distinct 'breed'

Shannan	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

South-east Yunan	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

South Kanara	India

Surti	India, Sri Lanka	dairy, draught

Taiwan buffalo	-	Taiwan

Tamankaduwa	Sri Lanka

Tamarao	Philippines

Tarai buffalo	India, Nepal

Tedong	-	Indonesia

Tipo Baio	Brazil

Toda	-	India

Toraya	Indonesia	dairy, meat, draught

Trau Noi	-	Vietnam

Trinitario	Venezuela

Wenzhou	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Xiajiang	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Xilin	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo of Guangxi Zhuang AR

Xinfeng Mountainous	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Xinglong	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Xingyang	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Yanjin	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

Yibin	China	variety of the § Chinese buffalo

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The Banni Buffalo is recognized as the breed of buffalo in the W: India.

final_sentence: The Banni Buffalo is recognized as the breed of buffalo in the W: India.