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Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758

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Description

Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:58.

REVIEWED BY: O. L. Rossolimo (OLR); S. Wang (SW).

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden.

DISTRIBUTION: N.W. and N.C. Eurasia, east to Lake Baikal, and south to France and Mongolia.

COMMENT: Lavrov and Orlov, 1973, Zool. Zh., 52:734-742, clarified the distinction between this species and canadensis. Lavrov, 1979, Zool. Zh., 58(l):88-96, considered albicus a distinct species, but also see Corbet and Hill, 1980:142. OLR includes albicus in fiber.

PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. f. birulai subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410005001002001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 390, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE87CF5855FF98FE88F836FC382A20

Cites
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3917248 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0040551C553A83800DB7CD2D8EDAE537 (URL)
Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFF7FFB7585DFF90FFBDFFAEFF8F2379 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03CE87CF5855FF98FE88F836FC382A20 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205125410 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193494/taxon/03CE87CF5855FF98FE88F836FC382A20.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Castoridae
Genus
Castor
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
fiber
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Lavrov, L. S., and V. N. Orlov. 1973. [Karyotypes and taxonomy of modern beavers (Castor, Castoridae, Mammalia).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 52: 734 - 742 (in Russian).
  • Lavrov, L. S. 1979. [Species of beavers (Castor) of the Palearctic.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 58: 88 - 96 (in Russian).
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.