Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758

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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scientific name	Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758
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Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:70 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden (domesticated stock) .

DISTRIBUTION: S. Turkey; E. Turkey to C. and S.E. Iran; possibly Cyprus.

COMMENT: Includes orientalis ; see Nadler et al., 1973, Z. Saugetierk., 38: 109-125. Probably includes musimon (RSH) ; see Corbet and Hill, 1980:127. Hybridizes with vignei in C. Iran; see Valdez et al., 1978, Evolution, 32:56-72 and Nadler et al., 1971, Cytogenetics, 10: 137-152. Introduced worldwide as domesticate; feral in many places. See also comment under musimon .

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as O. orientalis ophion subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009041007001 as O. aries .

5301419009041006001 as O. orientalis .

References

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

Nadler, C. F., K. V. Korobitsina, R. S. Hoffmann, and N. N. Vorontsov. 1973. Cytogenetic differentiation, geographic distribution and domestication in Palearctic sheep (Ovis). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 38: 109 - 125.

Valdez, R., C. F. Nadler, and T. D. Bunch. 1978. Evolution of wild sheep in Iran. Evolution, 32: 56 - 72.