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Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz 1829

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Description

Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz, 1829. Zool. Atlas, Part 1, p. 1, pl. 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, E Kamchatka.

DISTRIBUTION: Putorana Mtns, NC Siberia; NE Siberia from Lena River east to Chukotka and Kamchatka (Russia).

SYNONYMS: alleni, borealis, koriakorum, lydekkeri, middendorfi, potanini, storcki.

COMMENTS: Corbet (1978c:218) and others included nivicola in canadensis; but see Korobitsyna et al. (1974) and Gromov and Baranova (1981:407).

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 409, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Bovidae
Genus
Ovis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Eschscholtz
Species
nivicola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz, 1829 sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Korobitsyna, K. V., C. F. Nadler, N. N. Vorontsov, and R. S. Hoffmann. 1974. Chromosomes of the Siberian snow sheep, Ovis nivicola, and implications concerning the origin of amphiberingean wild sheep (subgenus Pachyceros). Quaternary Research, 4: 235 - 245.
  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).