Bison bison

Bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:72. TYPE LOCALITY: " Mexico " (= C Kansas, "Quivira"), see Hershkovitz (19576); redesignated as Canadian River valley, E New Mexico (USA), see McDonald (1981:62). DISTRIBUTION: Formerly NW and C Canada, south through USA, to C...

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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
Bovidae
Bison
Bison bison
Canada
Wood Buffalo
Grubb
Alaska
Bison bison bison
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7280071
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7280071
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Summary:Bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:72. TYPE LOCALITY: " Mexico " (= C Kansas, "Quivira"), see Hershkovitz (19576); redesignated as Canadian River valley, E New Mexico (USA), see McDonald (1981:62). DISTRIBUTION: Formerly NW and C Canada, south through USA, to Chihuahua, Coahuila (Mexico). Exterminated in the wild except in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming (USA) and Wood Buffalo Park, Northwest Territory (Canada). Reintroduced widely within native range and in C Alaska. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as B. b. athabascae. SYNONYMS: americanus, athabascae, haningtoni, montanae, oregonus, pennsylvanicus, septemtrionalis (sic). COMMENTS: Reviewed by Meagher (1986, Mammalian Species, 266). 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 400, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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