Oreamnos americanus
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Description
Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville 1816)
[Rupicapra] americana de Blainville 1816, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816: 80.
Type Locality: "d'Amerique"; restricted to the type locality of Ovis montanus Ord, 1815, the Columbia River area, where observed by Lewis and Clark, in "the Cascade Mountains, and the nearby range" (Hollister, 1912:185) "near Mt Adams, Washington " (Dalquest, 1948:409) (USA, Washington, Cascade Mountains, Mt. Adams).
Vernacular Names: Mountain Goat.
Distribution: SE Alaska (USA), S Yukon and SW Mackenzie (Canada) to NC Oregon, C Idaho, and Montana (USA). Introduced to Kodiak, Chichagof, and Baranof Isls (Alaska), Olympic Peninsula (Washington), C Montana, Black Hills (South Dakota), and Colorado (USA).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Revised by Cowan and McCrory (1970). Reviewed by Rideout and Hoffmann (1975, Mammalian Species, 63).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/AB6A4FBA464988A6B3A53F4B8CD52B4B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/F66C77AA8319FB94C8B5ECCE493D435F (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231541125 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Oreamnos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- de Blainville
- Species
- americanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oreamnos americanus (Blainville, 1816) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Hollister, N. 1912. The names of the Rocky Mountain goat. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 25: 185 - 186.
- Dalquest, W. W. 1948. Mammals of Washington. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 2: 1 - 444.
- Cowan, I. McT., and W. McCrory. 1970. Variation in the mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus (Blainville). Journal of Mammalogy, 51: 60 - 73.
- Rideout, C. B., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1975. Oreamnos americanus. Mammalian Species, 63: 1 - 6.