Odobenus rosmarus

Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38. TYPE LOCALITY: "intra Zonam arcticam Europae, Asiae, Americae". DISTRIBUTION: Arctic seas: south as far as New England (USA), Great Britain, Scandinavia, Pribilof Isis, and Honshu (Japan) at least occasionally. STATUS: CITES -...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Odobenidae
Odobenus
Odobenus rosmarus
Arctic
Canada
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7288609
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288609
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Summary:Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38. TYPE LOCALITY: "intra Zonam arcticam Europae, Asiae, Americae". DISTRIBUTION: Arctic seas: south as far as New England (USA), Great Britain, Scandinavia, Pribilof Isis, and Honshu (Japan) at least occasionally. STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Canada); IUCN - Insufficiently known as O. r. laptevi. SYNONYMS: arcticus Pallas, 1811; cookii Fremerij, 1831; divergens liliger, 1815; obesus liliger, 1815; orientalis Dybowski, 1922. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Fay (1985, Mammalian Species, 238). Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 326, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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