Ovis canadensis Shaw, 1804

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 315-343 : 339

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Ovis canadensis Shaw, 1804 View in CoL . Nat. Misc., 51, text to pl. 610.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Alberta, Mountains on Bow River, near Exshaw .

DISTRIBUTION: S. British Columbia and S.W. Alberta ( Canada) to Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California ( Mexico).

COMMENT: Corbet, 1978:218, included nivicola ; but see also Korobitsyna et al., 1974, Quat. Res., 4:235-245; Corbet and Hill, 1980:127.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009041002001.

References

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.

Korobitsyna, K. V., C. F. Nadler, N. N. Vorontsov, and R. S. Hoffmann. 1974. Chromosomes of the Siberian snow sheep, Ovis nivicola, and implications concerning the origin of amphiberingean wild sheep (subgenus Pachyceros). Quaternary Research, 4: 235 - 245.