Syncerus

{{Short description|Genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|3|0}}Late Pliocene–Recent

| image = African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) bull ... (50664295286).jpg

| image_caption = Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

| taxon = Syncerus

| authority = Hodgson, 1847

| type_species = Bos brachyceros{{MSW3|heading = Genus Syncerus|id=14200706}}

| type_species_authority = J.E. Gray, 1837 (= Bos caffer Sparrman, 1779)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *Syncerus caffer

• S. c. caffer
• S. c. nanus
• S. c. brachyceros
• S. c. aequinoctialis
• S. c. mathewsi
• †Syncerus acoelotus
• †Syncerus antiquus

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Syncerus is a genus of African bovid that contains the living Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), including the distinct African forest buffalo.

At least one extinct species belongs to this genus; Syncerus acoelotus.{{cite web |title=Syncerus acoelotus |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=374463 |website=Fossilworks |access-date=2021-12-17 |archive-date=2021-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212214937/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=374463 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Gentry |first1=A.W. |last2=Gentry |first2=A. |title=Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Part 1 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology |date=1978 |volume=29 |pages=289–446}} The extinct giant African buffalo (Syncerus antiquus) is also included in this genus by many authorities.{{Cite journal|last=Klein|first=Richard G.|date=November 1994|title=The Long-Horned African Buffalo (Pelorovis antiquus) is an Extinct Species|journal=Journal of Archaeological Science|language=en|volume=21|issue=6|pages=725–733|doi=10.1006/jasc.1994.1072|doi-access=free|bibcode=1994JArSc..21..725K }}