Alces alces

Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:66. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. DISTRIBUTION: N Eurasia from Scandinavia and Poland, east to Anadyr region (E Siberia); south to Ukraine and S Siberia, N Mongolia and N China (Xingjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang); Alaska (USA); Canada; N USA; exti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peter Grubb
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Cervidae
Alces
Alces alces
Canada
New Zealand
Anadyr
Anadyr’
Grubb
Franzmann
Anadyr'
Alaska
Siberia
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7279860
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279860
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Summary:Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:66. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. DISTRIBUTION: N Eurasia from Scandinavia and Poland, east to Anadyr region (E Siberia); south to Ukraine and S Siberia, N Mongolia and N China (Xingjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang); Alaska (USA); Canada; N USA; extinct in Caucasus region since last century; introduced to New Zealand. SYNONYMS: americanus, andersoni, angusticephalus, antiquorum, bedfordiae, buturlini, cameloides, caucasicus, columbae, coronatus, europaeus, gigas, jubata, machlis, meridionalis, palmatus, pfizenmayeri, shirasi, tymensis, uralensis, yakutskensis. COMMENTS: Revised by R.L. Peterson (1952); reviewed by Franzmann (1981, Mammalian Species, 154). 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 389, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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