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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Mustelinae
--> GENUS Gulo
SPECIES Gulo gulo
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 45. | | Common Name: | Wolverine | | Type Locality: | "alpibus Lapponiæ, Ruffiae, Sibiriae, sylvis vastissimis", restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "Lapland". | | Distribution: | Canada, China (Heilongiang, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia), Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA (Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana) | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Degerbøl (1935) and Kurtén and Rausch (1959) demonstrated that gulo and luscus are conspecific. Reviewed by Pasitschniak-Arts and Larivière (1995). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Pasitschniak-Arts and Larivière (1995). |
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