Bos gaurus på IUCN:s rödlista, auktor: Duckworth, J.W., Sankar, K., Williams, A.C., Samba Kumar, N. & Timmins, R.J. 2016, besökt 20 maj 2022.
”Bos gaurus” (på engelska). IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. www.iucnredlist.org. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/2891/0. Läst 25 april 2010. ”The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2003) ruled that the name for this wild species is not invalid by virtue of being antedated by the name based on the domestic form. Therefore, IUCN considers the wild species of Gaur under Bos gaurus, while referring to the domestic form (Mythun, Mithan or Gayal) as Bos frontalis Lambert, 1804 (see Gentry et al. 2004).”
