Ovis ammon (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 ammon (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Ovis ammon (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:70.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.S. R., Kazakh S.S. R., Vostochno-Kazakhstansk. Obi., Altai Mtns., Bukhtarma; alternatively, Ust-Kamenogorsk .

DISTRIBUTION: Turkestan to Mongolia; south to Afghanistan, N. India; Ladak; Nepal; Sikkim; W. and N. China.

COMMENT: Corbet, 1978:218, and Haltenorth, 1963:121, included orientalis (= aries ), musimon , and vignei ; but see also review by Nadler et al., 1973, Z. Saugetierk., 38: 109- 125; Corbet and Hill, 1980:127.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as O. ammon .

CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as O. a. hodgsoni subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009041001001.

References

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

Haltenorth, T. 1963. Klassifikation der Saugetiere: Artiodactyla I. Handbuch der Zoologie, 8 (32): 1 - 167.

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.