Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758

Don E. Wilson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Castoridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 467-467 : 467

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Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:58 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: NW and NC Eurasia, east to Lake Baikal, and south to France and Mongolia.

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. f. birulai; IUCN - Endangered as C. f. bindai.

SYNONYMS: albicus, albus, balticus, bindai, birulai, flavus, fulvus, galliae, gallicus, niger, pohlei, propiius, solitarius, variegatus, varius, vistulanus.

COMMENTS: Lavrov and Orlov (1973) clarified the distinction between this species and canadensis . Lavrov (1979) considered albicus a distinct species, but also see Corbet and Hill (1991) and Freye (1978).