Published December 31, 1982
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Ovis Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Ovis Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:70.
REVIEWED BY: R. S. Hoffmann (RSH); J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP).
COMMENT: Placed in Capra by Van Gelder, 1977, Am. Mus. Novit., 2635:1-25; see comments under Capra. There is no consensus concerning the number of species to be recognized in this genus; some would recognize only one (ammon; see Haltenorth, 1963:126- 128); others two (ammon, canadensis; see Corbet, 1978:218), while others recognize up to seven, as do the most recent reviews (Nadler et al., 1973, Z. Saugetierk., 30:109- 125; Korobitsyna et al., 1974, Quat. Res., 4:235-245).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009041000000.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 315-343 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 339, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352976
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ovis Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Haltenorth, T. 1963. Klassifikation der Saugetiere: Artiodactyla I. Handbuch der Zoologie, 8 (32): 1 - 167.
- Nadler, C. F., K. V. Korobitsina, R. S. Hoffmann, and N. N. Vorontsov. 1973. Cytogenetic differentiation, geographic distribution and domestication in Palearctic sheep (Ovis). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 38: 109 - 125.
- 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.