Ovis musimon Pallas, 1811

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 musimon Pallas, 1811
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Ovis musimon Pallas, 1811 View in CoL . Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:230.

TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, Sardinia .

DISTRIBUTION: Originally restricted to islands of Sardinia and Corsica; probably Cyprus. Widely introduced into Europe.

COMMENT: The status of the Cyprian wild sheep, ophion, is controversial. It was allocated to O. orientalis (= aries ) by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:418, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:406, but provisionally assigned to musimon by Nadler et al., 1973, Z. Saugetierk., 38: 119. Payne, 1968, Proc. Prehist. Soc., 34:368-384, considered musimon and ophion to be primitive feral stocks of domesticated O. aries . See also comment under aries .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009041004001.

References

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).

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.

Payne, S. 1968. The origin of domestic sheep and goats: A reconsideration in the light of the fossil evidence. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 34: 368 - 384.