Arctic reindeer
The Arctic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus), also known as the East Greenland caribou or Greenland caribou, was a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) that once lived in eastern Greenland. It has been extinct since 1900.
| Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Genus: | Rangifer |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †R. t. eogroenlandicus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus Degerbøl,[2] 1957 | |
References
- Gunn, A. (2016). "Rangifer tarandus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T29742A22167140. Archived from the original on 29 June 2016.
- Hatting, Tove (1978). "Magnus Anton Degerbøl: 1895-1977". Journal of Mammalogy. 59 (4): 894–897. doi:10.2307/1380173. JSTOR 1380173.
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