Rangifer tarandus - #6052

Reindeer
Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus
Geographic Distribution

Circumboreal in tundra and taiga from Svalbard, Norway, Finland, Russia, Alaska (USA) and Canada including most arctic islands, and Greenland, south to N Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia; now only domesticated or feral?), Sakhalin Isl, and USA (N Idaho and Great Lakes region). Introduced to, and feral in, Iceland, Kerguelen Isls, South Georgia Isl, Pribilof Isls, St. Matthew Isl. Extinct in Sweden.

Order/Family
Cervidae
Genus
Rangifer
Specific Epithet
tarandus
Image Location
Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen
Image Date
25 June 2006
Photographer
LL Master