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--> GENUS Ovibos
SPECIES Ovibos moschatus
| Author: | Zimmermann, 1780. | | Citation: | Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 86. | | Common Name: | Muskox | | Type Locality: | Canada, Manitoba, "Bewohnt anjezt hauptsachlich Neuwallis an der Hudsonsbay ban zwischen Seefalber- (Seals) und Churchill-Fluss zwischen dem 59 bis 61. Grad Breite" (between Seal and Churchill Rivers). | | Distribution: | Formerly Point Barrow, Alaska (USA) east to NE Greenland, south to NE Manitoba (Canada). Range now much reduced. Introduced to Seward Peninsula and Nunivak Isl, Alaska (USA); Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Isl (Russia); and Svalbard (Norway), where it has since died out. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Revised by Tener (1965). Reviewed by Lent (1988, Mammalian Species, 302). |
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