Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville 1816)

[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).