Ovibos moschatus

Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann 1780) [Bos] moschatus Zimmermann 1780, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 86. Type Locality: Canada, Manitoba, "Bewohnt anjezt hauptsachlich Neuwallis an der Hudsonsbay ban zwischen Seefalber- (Seals) und Churchill-Fluss zwischen dem 59 bis 61. Grad Breite"...

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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
Ovibos
Ovibos moschatus
Svalbard
Canada
Greenland
Norway
Lent
Barrow
Churchill
muskox
Nunivak
ovibos moschatus
Point Barrow
Seward Peninsula
Taimyr
Alaska
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11337420
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Summary:Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann 1780) [Bos] moschatus Zimmermann 1780, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 86. Type Locality: Canada, Manitoba, "Bewohnt anjezt hauptsachlich Neuwallis an der Hudsonsbay ban zwischen Seefalber- (Seals) und Churchill-Fluss zwischen dem 59 bis 61. Grad Breite" (between Seal and Churchill Rivers). Vernacular Names: Muskox. Distribution: Formerly Point Barrow, Alaska (USA) east to NE Greenland, south to NE Manitoba (Canada). Range now much reduced. Introduced to Seward Peninsula and Nunivak Isl, Alaska (USA); Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Isl (Russia); and Svalbard (Norway), where it has since died out. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Revised by Tener (1965). Reviewed by Lent (1988, Mammalian Species, 302). 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 707, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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