Odobenus rosmarus (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 : 326

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scientific name

Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38.

TYPE LOCALITY: "intra Zonam arcticam Europae, Asiae, Americae" .

DISTRIBUTION: Arctic seas: south as far as New England ( USA), Great Britain, Scandinavia, Pribilof Isis, and Honshu ( Japan) at least occasionally.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( Canada); IUCN - Insufficiently known as O. r. laptevi .

SYNONYMS: arcticus Pallas, 1811 ; cookii Fremerij, 1831 ; divergens liliger, 1815; obesus liliger, 1815; orientalis Dybowski, 1922 .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Fay (1985, Mammalian Species, 238).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Odobenidae

Genus

Odobenus

Loc

Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus 1758: 38
1758
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