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--> GENUS Ovis
SPECIES Ovis canadensis
| Author: | Shaw, 1804. | | Citation: | Nat. Misc., 51: text to pl. 610. | | Common Name: | Bighorn Sheep | | Type Locality: | "the interior parts of Canada"; identified as Canada, Alberta, Mountains on Bow River, near Exshaw (Anderson, 1947:184). | | Distribution: | S British Columbia and SW Alberta (Canada) to Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California (Mexico). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II (Mexican population); U.S. ESA – Endangered as O. c. californiana in Sierra Nevada, California; Endangered as O. canadensis in peninsular ranges of Calfornia; IUCN – Critically Endangered as O. c. weemsi; Endangered as O. c. cremnobates; Vulnerable as O. c. mexicana; Lower Risk (cd) as O. c. californiana and O. c. nelsoni; otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | For locality where Duncan McGillivray shot the type, see J. A. Allen (1912). Corbet (1978c:218) included nivicola; but see also Korobitsyna et al. (1974) and Corbet and Hill (1991:135). Revised by Cowan (1940) and Wehausen and Ramey (2000). Reviewed by Shackleton (1985, Mammalian Species, 230). |
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