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Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz 1829

Description

Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz 1829

Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz 1829, Zool. Atlas, Part 1: 1.

Type Locality: "den Bergen der Halbinsel Kamtschatka " (Russia, E Kamchatka).

Vernacular Names: Snow Sheep.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Ovis nivicola subsp. nivicola Eschscholtz 1829

Subspecies Ovis nivicola subsp. borealis Severtzov 1872

Subspecies Ovis nivicola subsp. kodarensis Medvedev 1994

Subspecies Ovis nivicola subsp. koriakorum Chernyavskii 1962

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

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as O. n. borealis, Lower Risk (nt) as O. n. nivicola; Lower Risk (lc) as O. n. alleni and O. n. lydekkeri.

Discussion: Corbet (1978 c:218) and others included nivicola in canadensis; but see Korobitsyna et al. (1974) and Gromov and Baranova (1981:407). Subspecies reviewed by Heptner et al. (1961) and Valdez (1982) whose synonymy is followed here.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 710, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Eschscholtz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Ovis
Species
nivicola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz, 1829 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

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).
  • Heptner, V. G., A. A. Nasimovich, and A. G. Bannikov. 1961. Mlekopitayushchie Sovetskovo Soyuza: Parnokopytnie i Neparnokopytnie. [Mammals of the Soviet Union: Even-toed and odd-toed ungulates]. Vysshaya Shkola, Moscow, 1: 1 - 776 (in Russian).
  • Valdez, R. 1982. The wild sheep of the world. Wild Sheep and Goat International, Mesilla, New Mexico, 186 pp.