Bighorn Sheep – Ovis canadensis

Ovis canadensisShaw, 1804

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

For locality where Duncan McGillivray shot the type, see J. A. Allen (1912). Corbet (1978c:218) included nivicola; but see also Korobitsyna et al. (1974) and Corbet and Hill (1991:135). Revised by Cowan (1940) and Wehausen and Ramey (2000). Reviewed by Shackleton (1985, Mammalian Species, 230).

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.