Rangifer tarandus

Translingual

Rangifer tarandus

Etymology

From New Latin tarandus (“reindeer”). Coined by Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

Proper noun

Rangifer tarandus m

1. A taxonomic species within the family Cervidae – reindeer and caribou.

Hypernyms

• (species): Artiodactyla - order; Cervidae - family; Capreolinae - subfamily; Rangifer - genus

Hyponyms

• (species): Rangifer tarandus caribou, †Rangifer tarandus dawsoni, †Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus, Rangifer tarandus fennicus, Rangifer tarandus granti, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, Rangifer tarandus pearyi, Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus, Rangifer tarandus tarandus - subspecies

References

• Rangifer tarandus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rangifer tarandus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Rangifer tarandus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Rangifer tarandus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Rangifer_tarandus at Animal Diversity Web
• Rangifer tarandus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Rangifer tarandus in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia