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Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:66.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Tataria versus Chinam"; restricted to Russia, SW Siberia, Altai Mtns by Heptner et al. (1961).
DISTRIBUTION: Forests of E Siberia, N Mongolia, N China west to Kansu, Korea, Sakhalin Isl.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
SYNONYMS: altaicus, arcticus, parvipes, sachalinensis, sibiricus, turowi.
COMMENTS: Includes sibiricus; see Corbet (1978c:198).
Notes
Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Moschidae
- 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. Grubb, 1993
References
- Heptner, V. G., A. A. Nasimovich, and A. G. Bannikov. 1961. Mlekopitayushchie Sovetskovo Soyuza: Parnokopytnie i Neparnokopytnie. [Mammals of the Soviet Union: Even-toed and odd-toed ungulates]. Vysshaya Shkola, Moscow, 1: 1 - 776 (in Russian).
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.