Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz 1829
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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.
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Related works
- 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/D757BDE2C79A139F29BC980BDBEAA22A (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231541215 (URL)
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.