Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 318

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288506

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scientific name

Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:45.

TYPE LOCALITY: "alpibus Lapponiae, Ruffiae, Sibiriae, sylvis vastissimis", restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "Lapland" .

DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic taiga and S tundra, south to 50°N (Eurasia) and 37°N (North America).

STATUS: IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: arcticus Desmarest, 1820 ; arctos Kaup, 1829 ; auduboni Matschie, 1918 ; bairdi Matschie, 1918 ; biedermanni Matschie, 1918 ; borealis Nilsson, 1820 ; hylaeus Elliot, 1905 ; kamtschaticus Dybowsky, 1922; katschenakensis Matschie, 1918; luscus Linnaeus, 1758 ; luteus Elliot, 1904 ; niediecki Matschie, 1918 ; sibirica Pallas, 1780 ; vancouverensis Goldman, 1935 ; vulgaris Oken, 1816 ; wachei Matschie, 1918 .

COMMENTS: Degerbol (1935) and Kurtén and Rausch (1959) demonstrated that gulo and luscus are conspecific.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Mustelidae

Genus

Gulo

Loc

Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758)

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus 1758: 45
1758
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