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    Species Accepted

    Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766)

    Common Muskrat
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Ondatra
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 45 countries or islands

      45 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      nullYesUnknown
      ArgentinaYes
      AustriaYes
      Bosnia and HerzegovinaNo
      BelgiumNo
      BelgiumNoUnknown
      BelgiumNoUnknown
      BelgiumNoUnknown
      BulgariaNo
      Bolivia, Plurinational State ofYes
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      64 results
      Abuop Dinka
      Anó:kien Mohawk
      Arratoi musketadun Basque
      Biisam Northern Frisian
      Bisambiber German
      Bisamrat Dutch
      Bisamratte German
      Bisamrotte Danish
      Bizam Romanian
      Bizamski štakor Croatian

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
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      Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. (1987). Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, No. 166.
      Elliot, D. G. (1903). Descriptions of Apparently New Species and Subspecies of Mammals from California, Oregon, the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and Lower California, Mexico. Field Columbian Museum, Publication 74. Zoological Series, Vol. 3, No. 10.
      Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (2005). Superfamily Muroidea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd Ed., Vol. 2.
      Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds. (1999). The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals.
      Hall, & Raymond, E. (1981). The Mammals of North America, 2nd Ed., Vol. 2.
      Fitzinger, L. J. (1867). Versuch einer natürlichen Anordnung der Nagethiere (Rodentia). Sitzungsberichte Der Kaiserlichen Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abt. 1, Mineralogie, Botanik, Zoologie, Anatomie, Geologie Und Paläontologie, Vol. 56, No. 1.
      Linnaeus, C. (1766) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Fol. 1. 13 th Edition. Typis Joannis Thomae, Vindobonae, 532 pp. [in Latin]

      Citation

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