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Ovis aries Linnaeus 1758

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Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:70.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden (domesticated stock).

DISTRIBUTION: S and E Turkey, Armenia, S Azerbaijan, N Iraq, W Iran. Domesticated worldwide; primitive domestic populations (mouflon) feral on Corsica and Sardinia, introduced from there to Europe, Crimea (USSR), USA (incl. Hawaiian Isis), Chile, Kerguelen Isis, Tenerife (Canary Isis); on Cyprus; and on St. Kilda and other small islands off the British Isles; improved domestic stock feral in Norway, Sweden, USA, islands off coasts of British Isles and New Zealand, Kerguelen Isis, and probably other oceanic islands.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as O. orientalis ophion; U.S. ESA - Endangered as O. musimon ophion; IUCN - Vulnerable as O. orientalis musimon and O. orientalis ophion.

SYNONYMS: anatolica, armeniana, corsicosardinensis, cyprius, erskinei, gmelini, laristanica, isphaganica; jubata Kerr, 1792; matschiei; mongolica Fitzinger, 1860; musimon, occidentalis, occidentosardinensis, ophion, orientalis, sinesella, urmiana.

COMMENTS: Includes orientalis; see Nadler et al. (1973). Also includes musimon and ophion, primitive domestic sheep, now feral; see S. Payne (1968), Vigne (1988), and Hemmer (1990). Hybridizes with vignei in C Iran; see Nadler et al. (1971 b) and Valdez et al. (1978).

Notes

Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 408, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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Cites
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3913662 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D59D1E6DB625FAF57986663429A2CEBA (URL)
Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB1BFF8B2C47DDD4FE1606CF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Ovis
Species
aries
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
  • Fitzinger, L. J. 1860, 1861. Wissenschaftlich-populare Naturgeschichte der Saugethiere in ihren sammtlichen Hauptformen. Nebst einer Einleitung in die Naturgeschichte uberhaupt un in die Lehre von den Thieren insbesondere. Vienna, Am der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 5 volumes.
  • 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.
  • Payne, S. 1968. The origin of domestic sheep and goats: A reconsideration in the light of the fossil evidence. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 34: 368 - 384.
  • Vigne, J. - D. 1988. Les Mammiferes post-glaciaires de Corse. Etude Archeozoologique (26 e supplement a Gallia Prehistoire). Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 337 pp.
  • Hemmer, H. 1990. Domestication. The decline of environmental appreciation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 208 pp.
  • Nadler, C. F., D. M. Lay, and J. D. Hassinger. 1971 b. Cytogenetic analyses of wild sheep populations in northern Iraq. Cytogenetics, 10: 137 - 152.
  • Valdez, R., C. F. Nadler, and T. D. Bunch. 1978. Evolution of wild sheep in Iran. Evolution, 32: 56 - 72.