Ondatra zibethicus
Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766). Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:79. TYPE LOCALITY: E Canada. DISTRIBUTION: North America, north to the treeline, including Newfoundland; south to the Gulf of Mexico, Rio Grande and lower Colorado River valleys. Introduced to Czechoslovakia in 1905 and now widespread in t...
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Smithsonian Institution Press
1993
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| Summary: | Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766). Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:79. TYPE LOCALITY: E Canada. DISTRIBUTION: North America, north to the treeline, including Newfoundland; south to the Gulf of Mexico, Rio Grande and lower Colorado River valleys. Introduced to Czechoslovakia in 1905 and now widespread in the Palearctic, including C and N Europe, most of Ukraine, Russia, and Siberia, adjacent parts of China and Mongolia, and Honshu Isl, Japan (see Corbet, 1978c); also into southernmost Argentina (see Olrog and Lucero, 1981). SYNONYMS: albus, americana, aquilonius, bernardi, cinnamominus, goldmani, hudsonius, macrodon, maculosa, mergens, niger, nigra, obscurus, occipitalis, osoyoosensis, pallidus, ripensis, rivalicius, spatulatus, varius, zalophus. COMMENTS: Revised, under the name Fiber, by Hollister (1911). Comprehensive summaries of ecology, population biology, and economic status provided by Pietsch (1982) and Perry (1982); history of introductions, mostly for fur-farms, and population spread in Eurasia and USA reviewed by Storer (1937). See Willner et al. (1980, Mammalian Species, 141). Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 532, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 |
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