Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353025
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7200651
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scientific name	Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820
status

Treatment

Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820 View in CoL . Beitr. ZooL Vergl. Anat. Abt., 1:64.

REVIEWED BY: J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP).

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Hudson Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: Brooks Range in Alaska ( U.S.A.) to Labrador ( Canada), Tamaulipas ( Mexico), and N. Florida ( U.S.A.). Introduced in Europe and Asia.

COMMENT: Lavrov and Orlov, 1973, Zool. Zh., 52:734-742, considered this species distinct from fiber . Reviewed by Jenkins and Busher, 1979, Mamm. Species, 120:1-8.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410005001001001.

References

Jenkins, S. H., and P. E. Busher. 1979. Castor canadensis. Mammalian Species, 120: 1 - 8.

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Castoridae
Genus	Castor

Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl 1982

1982

Castor canadensis

Kuhl 1820: 64

1820

Specimens