Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville 1816)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 706

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Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville 1816)
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[Rupicapra] americana de Blainville 1816 , Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816: 80.

Type Locality: "d'Amerique"; restricted to the type locality of Ovis montanus Ord, 1815 , the Columbia River area, where observed by Lewis and Clark, in "the Cascade Mountains, and the nearby range" ( Hollister, 1912:185) "near Mt Adams, Washington " ( Dalquest, 1948:409) ( USA, Washington, Cascade Mountains, Mt. Adams) .

Vernacular Names: Mountain Goat.

Distribution: SE Alaska ( USA), S Yukon and SW Mackenzie ( Canada) to NC Oregon, C Idaho, and Montana ( USA). Introduced to Kodiak, Chichagof, and Baranof Isls (Alaska), Olympic Peninsula (Washington), C Montana, Black Hills (South Dakota), and Colorado ( USA).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Cowan and McCrory (1970). Reviewed by Rideout and Hoffmann (1975, Mammalian Species, 63).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Bovidae

Genus

Oreamnos

Loc

Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville 1816)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Rupicapra] americana

de Blainville 1816: 80
1816
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