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Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820

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Description

Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820. Beitr. Zool. Vergi. Anat., 1:64.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Hudson Bay.

DISTRIBUTION: Brooks Range in Alaska (USA) to Labrador (Canada), Tamaulipas (Mexico), and N Florida (USA). Introduced in Europe and Asia.

STATUS: IUCN - Endangered as C. c. frondator and C. c. mexicanus.

SYNONYMS: acadicus, baileyi, belugae, caecator, carolinensis, concisor, duchesnei, frondator, idoneus, labradorensis, leucodontus, mexicanus, michiganensis, missouriensis, pallidus, phaeus, repentinus, rostralis, sagittatus, shastensis, subauratus, taylori, texensis.

COMMENTS: Lavrov and Orlov (1973) considered this species distinct from fiber. Reviewed by Jenkins and Busher (1979, Mammalian Species, 120).

Notes

Published as part of Don E. Wilson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Castoridae, pp. 467 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 467, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353058

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F557CF73FFDFFFBE93945DE3B961EB6F

Related works

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353058 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/096EB70BFFDFFFBE93725F49BC43EF3F (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/F557CF73FFDFFFBE93945DE3B961EB6F (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205128096 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193486/taxon/F557CF73FFDFFFBE93945DE3B961EB6F.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Castoridae
Genus
Castor
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Kuhl
Species
canadensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820 sec. Wilson, 1993

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).
  • Jenkins, S. H., and P. E. Busher. 1979. Castor canadensis. Mammalian Species, 120: 1 - 8.