Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus 1758

Description

Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed.,1:66.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.S.R., S.W. Siberia, Altai Mtns.("Tataria versus Chineum").

DISTRIBUTION: Forests of E. Siberia; N. Mongolia; N. China west to Kansu;Anwei (SW); Korea; Sakhalin Isl.

COMMENT: Includes sibiricus; see Corbet, 1978:198. Type locality restricted by Heptner and Naumov, eds., 1961, [Mammals of the Soviet Union], p. 83.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Moschus spp.

CITES - Appendix I as M. moschiferus (Himalayan population only) and U.S. ESA - Endangered as M. m. moschiferus subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419006001001001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 315-343 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352976

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Family
Cervidae
Genus
Moschus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
moschiferus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982