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Ovis canadensis Shaw 1804

Description

Ovis canadensis Shaw, 1804. Nat. Misc., 51, text to pl. 610.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Alberta, Mountains on Bow River, near Exshaw.

DISTRIBUTION: S. British Columbia and S.W. Alberta (Canada) to Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California (Mexico).

COMMENT: Corbet, 1978:218, included nivicola; but see also Korobitsyna et al., 1974, Quat. Res., 4:235-245; Corbet and Hill, 1980:127.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009041002001.

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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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Shaw
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Ovis
Species
canadensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ovis canadensis Shaw, 1804 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • 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.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.