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Gulo gulo

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Description

Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:45.

TYPE LOCALITY: "alpibus Lapponiae, Ruffiae, Sibiriae, sylvis vastissimis", restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "Lapland".

DISTRIBUTION: Holarctic taiga and S tundra, south to 50°N (Eurasia) and 37°N (North America).

STATUS: IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: arcticus Desmarest, 1820; arctos Kaup, 1829; auduboni Matschie, 1918; bairdi Matschie, 1918; biedermanni Matschie, 1918; borealis Nilsson, 1820; hylaeus Elliot, 1905; kamtschaticus Dybowsky, 1922; katschenakensis Matschie, 1918; luscus Linnaeus, 1758; luteus Elliot, 1904; niediecki Matschie, 1918; sibirica Pallas, 1780; vancouverensis Goldman, 1935; vulgaris Oken, 1816; wachei Matschie, 1918.

COMMENTS: Degerbol (1935) and Kurtén and Rausch (1959) demonstrated that gulo and luscus are conspecific.

Notes

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 318, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Gulo
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
gulo
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
  • Desmarest, A. G. 1820, 1822. Mammalogie ou description des espece de mammiferes. Encyclopedie Methodique. Agasse, Paris, 555 pp., 66 plates.
  • Elliot, D. G. 1905. A checklist of mammals of the North American continent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas. Field Columbian Museum, Publication 105, Zoological Series, 6: 1 - 761.
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • Goldman, E. A. 1935. New American mustelids of the genera Martes, Gulo, and Lutra. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 48: 175 - 186.
  • Degerbol, M. 1935. Report of the mammals collected by the fifth Thule Expedition to Arctic North America: Zoology. I. Mammals. Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921 - 1922, 2 (4): 1 - 67.
  • Kurten, B., and R. Rausch. 1959. Biometric comparisons between North American and European mammals. I. A comparison between Alaskan and Fennoscandian wolverine (Gulo gulo Linnaeus). Acta Arctica, 11: 1 - 21.