Rangifer tarandus subsp. tarandus Linnaeus 1758
Rangifer tarandus subsp. tarandus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 67.
Type Locality: "Habitat in Alpibus Europae et Asiae maxime septentrionalibus"; identified as Sweden, Alpine Lapland by Thomas (1911 a:151); based on domesticated stock .