Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann, 1780)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 408

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scientific name	Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann, 1780)
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Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann, 1780) View in CoL . Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:86.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Manitoba, between Seal and Churchill Rs .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly Point Barrow, Alaska ( USA) east to NE Greenland, south to NE Manitoba ( Canada). Range now much reduced. Introduced to Seward Peninsula and Nunivak Isl, Alaska ( USA); Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Isl ( Russia); Svalbard ( Norway).

SYNONYMS: mackenzianus, melvillensis, niphoecus, pearyi, wardi .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Lent (1988, Mammalian Species, 302).