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Bison bison
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Description
Bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:72.
TYPE LOCALITY: " Mexico " (= C Kansas, "Quivira"), see Hershkovitz (19576); redesignated as Canadian River valley, E New Mexico (USA), see McDonald (1981:62).
DISTRIBUTION: Formerly NW and C Canada, south through USA, to Chihuahua, Coahuila (Mexico). Exterminated in the wild except in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming (USA) and Wood Buffalo Park, Northwest Territory (Canada). Reintroduced widely within native range and in C Alaska.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as B. b. athabascae.
SYNONYMS: americanus, athabascae, haningtoni, montanae, oregonus, pennsylvanicus, septemtrionalis (sic).
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Meagher (1986, Mammalian Species, 266).
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 400, 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/D512126ADB13FF832DB4DDDCFA4D07E1 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205140342 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB13FF832DB4DDDCFA4D07E1.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Bison
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- bison
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- McDonald, J. N. 1981. North American bison, their classification and evolution. University of California Press, Berkeley, 316 pp.
- Meagher, M. 1986. Bison bison. Mammalian Species, 266: 1 - 8.