Oreamnos americanus

• 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; Bovidae; Oreamnos; Oreamnos americanus; Kodiak; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11337418; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F66C77AA8319FB94C8B5ECCE493D435F

Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville 1816) [Rupicapra] americana de Blainville 1816, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816: 80. Type Locality: "d'Amerique"; restricted to the type locality of Ovis montanus Ord, 1815, the Columbia River area, where observed by Lewis and Clark, in "the Cascade Mountains, and the nearby range" (Hollister, 1912:185) "near Mt Adams, Washington " (Dalquest, 1948:409) (USA, Washington, Cascade Mountains, Mt. Adams). Vernacular Names: Mountain Goat. Distribution: SE Alaska (USA), S Yukon and SW Mackenzie (Canada) to NC Oregon, C Idaho, and Montana (USA). Introduced to Kodiak, Chichagof, and Baranof Isls (Alaska), Olympic Peninsula (Washington), C Montana, Black Hills (South Dakota), and Colorado (USA). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Revised by Cowan and McCrory (1970). Reviewed by Rideout and Hoffmann (1975, Mammalian Species, 63). Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519