Ovis ammon (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

Ovis ammon (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:70.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, Vostochno-Kazakhstansk. Obi., Altai Mtns, Bukhtarma; near Ust-Kamenogorsk .

DISTRIBUTION: S Siberia, E Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, and Tadzhikistan, south to Pamir Range in NE Afghanistan and N Pakistan; Ladak (N India); Nepal; Sikkim (NE India); Sinkiang and Tibet to Inner Mongolia ( China); Mongolia.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I O. a. hodgsoni, otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered as O. a. hodgsoni.

SYNONYMS: adametzi, altaica , ammonoides, argali, asiaticus, bambhera, blythi, brookei , coIlium, comosa, dalailamae, darwini, dauricus, heinsii, henrii, hodgsonii , humei, intermedia ; jubata Peters, 1876; karelini, kozlovi, littledalei; mongolica Severtzov, 1873; nigrimontana, polii , przevalskii, sairensis.

COMMENTS: Haltenorth (1963:121) and Corbet (1978c:218) included orientalis (= aries ), musimon and vignei ; but see review by Nadler et al. (1973) and Corbet and Hill (1991:136). Subspecies reviewed by Sopin (1982).