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Odobenus rosmarus
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Description
Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38.
TYPE LOCALITY: "intra Zonam arcticam Europae, Asiae, Americae".
DISTRIBUTION: Arctic seas: south as far as New England (USA), Great Britain, Scandinavia, Pribilof Isis, and Honshu (Japan) at least occasionally.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Canada); IUCN - Insufficiently known as O. r. laptevi.
SYNONYMS: arcticus Pallas, 1811; cookii Fremerij, 1831; divergens liliger, 1815; obesus liliger, 1815; orientalis Dybowski, 1922.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Fay (1985, Mammalian Species, 238).
Notes
Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 326, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Odobenidae
- Genus
- Odobenus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- rosmarus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Pallas, P. S. 1811 [1831]. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium Animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicillia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. [ICZN Opinion 212 -- dates of volumes: 1 & 2: 1811; 3: 1814]. Petropoli, in officina Caes. acadamiae scientiarum. 3 vol. [official date of publ for vol 1 - 1811 impress], 1: 1 - 568.
- Fay, F. H. 1985. Odobenus rosmarus. Mammalian Species, 238: 1 - 7.