Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 382-392 : 390

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

REVIEWED BY: O. L. Rossolimo (OLR); S. Wang (SW).

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: N.W. and N.C. Eurasia, east to Lake Baikal, and south to France and Mongolia.

COMMENT: Lavrov and Orlov, 1973, Zool. Zh., 52:734-742, clarified the distinction between this species and canadensis . Lavrov, 1979, Zool. Zh., 58(l):88-96, considered albicus a distinct species, but also see Corbet and Hill, 1980:142. OLR includes albicus in fiber .

PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. f. birulai subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410005001002001.

References

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.

Lavrov, L. S., and V. N. Orlov. 1973. [Karyotypes and taxonomy of modern beavers (Castor, Castoridae, Mammalia).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 52: 734 - 742 (in Russian).

Lavrov, L. S. 1979. [Species of beavers (Castor) of the Palearctic.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 58: 88 - 96 (in Russian).