Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 532

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Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766)
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Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:79.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Canada .

DISTRIBUTION: North America, north to the treeline, including Newfoundland; south to the Gulf of Mexico, Rio Grande and lower Colorado River valleys. Introduced to Czechoslovakia in 1905 and now widespread in the Palearctic, including C and N Europe, most of Ukraine, Russia, and Siberia, adjacent parts of China and Mongolia, and Honshu Isl, Japan (see Corbet, 1978c); also into southernmost Argentina (see Olrog and Lucero, 1981).

SYNONYMS: albus, americana , aquilonius, bernardi, cinnamominus, goldmani , hudsonius , macrodon , maculosa , mergens, niger , nigra , obscurus , occipitalis , osoyoosensis , pallidus , ripensis, rivalicius, spatulatus , varius , zalophus.

COMMENTS: Revised, under the name Fiber , by Hollister (1911). Comprehensive summaries of ecology, population biology, and economic status provided by Pietsch (1982) and Perry (1982); history of introductions, mostly for fur-farms, and population spread in Eurasia and USA reviewed by Storer (1937). See Willner et al. (1980, Mammalian Species, 141).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Ondatra

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Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
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Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Linnaeus 1766: 79
1766
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