Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 389

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Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:66.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: N Eurasia from Scandinavia and Poland, east to Anadyr region (E Siberia); south to Ukraine and S Siberia, N Mongolia and N China (Xingjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang); Alaska ( USA); Canada; N USA; extinct in Caucasus region since last century; introduced to New Zealand.

SYNONYMS: americanus , andersoni, angusticephalus, antiquorum , bedfordiae, buturlini, cameloides , caucasicus, columbae, coronatus, europaeus, gigas , jubata, machlis , meridionalis, palmatus, pfizenmayeri , shirasi, tymensis, uralensis, yakutskensis.

COMMENTS: Revised by R.L. Peterson (1952); reviewed by Franzmann (1981, Mammalian Species, 154).