Ovis canadensis Shaw, 1804

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 408-409

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Ovis canadensis Shaw, 1804 View in CoL . Nat. Mise., 51, text to pl. 610.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Alberta, Mountains on Bow River, near Exshaw .

DISTRIBUTION: S British Columbia and SW Alberta ( Canada) to Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California ( Mexico).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II for Mexican population.

SYNONYMS: auduboni, californiana, cervina , cremnobates, gaillardi, mexicana, montana, nelsoni, paimeri, pygargus , samilkameenensis, sheldoni, sierrae, texianus, weemsi.

COMMENTS: Corbet (1978c:218) included nivicola ; but see also Korobitsyna et al. (1974) and Corbet and Hill (1991: 135). Revised by Cowan (1940). Reviewed by Shackleton (1985, Mammalian Species, 230).