Rangifer tarandus

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Artiodactyla; Cervidae; Rangifer; Rangifer tarandus; Greenland; Iceland; Sakhalin; Svalbard; taiga; Tundra; Alaska; Lapland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11337110; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C1A875BE3781C31C55A6B584DFB2CE0B

Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus 1758) [Cervus] tarandus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 67. Type Locality: "Habitat in Alpibus Europae et Asiae maxime septentrionalibus"; identified as Sweden, Alpine Lapland by Thomas (1911 a :151); based on domesticated stock. Vernacular Names: Reindeer. Subspecies:: Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. tarandus Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. buskensis Millais 1915 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. caboti G. M. Allen 1914 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. caribou Gmelin 1788 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. dawsoni Thompson-Seton 1900 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. fennicus Lönnberg 1909 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. groenlandicus Borowski 1780 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. osborni J. A. Allen 1902 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. pearsoni Lydekker 1903 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. pearyi J. A. Allen 1902 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. phylarchus Hollister 1912 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. platyrhynchus Vrolik 1829 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. sibiricus Murray 1866 Subspecies Rangifer tarandus subsp. terraenovae Bangs 1896 Distribution: Circumboreal in tundra and taiga from Svalbard, Norway, Finland, Russia, Alaska (USA) and Canada including most arctic islands, and Greenland, south to N Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia; now only domesticated or feral?), Sakhalin Isl, and USA (N Idaho and Great Lakes region). Introduced to, and feral in, Iceland, Kerguelen Isls, South Georgia Isl, Pribilof Isls, St. Matthew Isl. Extinct in Sweden. Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered as R. t. caribou in Canada (SE British Columbia at the Canadian-USA border, Columbia River, Kootenay River, Kootenay Lake, and Kootenai River) and USA (Idaho, Washington); IUCN – Endangered as R. t. pearyi , otherwise Lower Risk (lc). The woodland caribou is highly endangered throughout its distribution right into Ontario (V. Geist, in litt.). Discussion: Subspecies have been placed in two divisions, compressicornis or Woodland Reindeer, ...