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Alces alces
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Description
Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:66.
TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden.
DISTRIBUTION: N Eurasia from Scandinavia and Poland, east to Anadyr region (E Siberia); south to Ukraine and S Siberia, N Mongolia and N China (Xingjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang); Alaska (USA); Canada; N USA; extinct in Caucasus region since last century; introduced to New Zealand.
SYNONYMS: americanus, andersoni, angusticephalus, antiquorum, bedfordiae, buturlini, cameloides, caucasicus, columbae, coronatus, europaeus, gigas, jubata, machlis, meridionalis, palmatus, pfizenmayeri, shirasi, tymensis, uralensis, yakutskensis.
COMMENTS: Revised by R.L. Peterson (1952); reviewed by Franzmann (1981, Mammalian Species, 154).
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 389, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/D512126ADB08FF982DA6DD3AFDBA074E (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205140245 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB08FF982DA6DD3AFDBA074E.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cervidae
- Genus
- Alces
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- alces
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- Peterson, R. L. 1952. A review of the living representatives of the genus Alces. Contributions from the Royal Ontario Museum in Zoology and Palaeontology, 34: 1 - 30.
- Franzmann, A. W. 1981. Alces alces. Mammalian Species, 154: 1 - 7.