''Bubalus grovesi'' is an extinct species of

water buffalo The water buffalo (''Bubalus bubalis''), also called the domestic water buffalo or Asian water buffalo, is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Today, it is also found in Europe, Australia, North America, S ...

that lived in southern Sulawesi during the

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within ...

and Early Holocene. ''B. grovesi'' was an extremely small buffalo species, estimated at only . It experienced a body size reduction of about 90% from the typical water buffalo. The closest relatives of ''B. grovesi'' are the living

anoa Anoa, also known as dwarf buffalo and ''sapiutan'', are two species of the genus ''Bubalus'' endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia: the mountain anoa (''Bubalus quarlesi'') and the lowland anoa (''Bubalus depressicornis''). Both liv ...

, which still inhabit Sulawesi today.

References

Pleistocene even-toed ungulates Pleistocene mammals of Asia Holocene extinctions Extinct animals of Indonesia {{paleo-eventoedungulate-stub