The zoological name of buffalo is

The zoological name of buffalo is Bubalus bubalis. It is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Carl Linnaeus first described the genus Bos and the water buffalo under the binomial Bos bubalis in 1758; the species was known to occur in Asia and was held as a domestic form in Italy.
In March 2003, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature achieved consistency in the naming of the wild and domestic water buffaloes by ruling that the scientific name Bubalus arnee is valid for the wild form.