Rangifer tarandus

• Main Author: Peter Grubb
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• 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.7279912; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D512126ADB0BFF9B2C4EDD94FB0A06FB

Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:67. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Alpine Lapland (domesticated stock). 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; Inner Mongolia and Heilungkiang, China (now feral?); Sakhalin Isl; N Idaho and Great Lakes region (USA). Introduced to, and feral in, Iceland, Kerguelen Isis, South Georgia Isl, Pribilof Isis, St. Matthew Isl. Extinct in Sweden. STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as R. t. caribou in Canada (SE British Columbia at the Canadian-USA border, Columbia R., Kootenay, R. Kootenay Lake, and Kootenai R.) and USA (Idaho, Washington). SYNONYMS: angustirostris, arcticus, asiaticus, borealis, buskensis, caboti, caribou, chukchensis, cilindricornis, dawsoni, dichotomus, eogroenlandicus, excelsifrons, fennicus, fortidens, furcifer, granti, groenlandicus, keewatinensis, labradorensis, lapponum, lenensis, montanus, mcguirei, ogilvyensis, osborni, pearsoni, pearyi, phylarchus, platyrhynchus, rangifer, selousi, setoni, sibiricus, silvicola, spetsbergensis, storni, sylvestris, taimyrensis, terraenovae, transuralensis, valentinae, yakutskensis. 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 392, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189