Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:58.

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).