Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 (reindeer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Alternative combination: Cervus tarandus

Synonym: Rangifer muscatinensis Leidy 1879

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Rangifer according to L. E. Harding 2022

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Albright et al. 2019, Anderson and White 1975, Boule and De Villeneuve 1927, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Thomas 1911

Sister taxon: Rangifer arcticus

Subtaxa: Rangifer tarandus caboti Rangifer tarandus caribou Rangifer tarandus dawsoni Rangifer tarandus fennicus Rangifer tarandus granti Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus Rangifer tarandus osborni Rangifer tarandus pearyi Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus Rangifer tarandus sibiricus Rangifer tarandus tarandus Rangifer tarandus terranovae Rangifer tarandus valentinae

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Canada (38: Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), France (7), Germany (7), Greenland (24), Monaco (1), the Netherlands (3), North Atlantic (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (6), the United Kingdom (2), United States (22: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)

Total: 116 collections each including a single occurrence

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