Genus
Rangifer
10 species
The list of species of Rangifer genus
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The list of species of Rangifer genus
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The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution. Reindeer occur in both migratory and sedentary populations, and their herd sizes vary greatly in different regions....
The boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou ), also known as woodland caribou, boreal forest caribou and forest-dwelling caribou, is a North American subspecies of reindeer (or caribou in North America) found only in Canada. Unlike the...
The Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus ) is a small subspecies of reindeer found on the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. They are the only large grazing mammal in the European High Arctic, and this makes them exceptional for studies...
The Porcupine caribou or Grant's caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti ) is a subspecies of the reindeer or caribou found in Alaska, United States, and Yukon and the Northwest Territories, Canada. It resembles the subspecies known as the barren-ground...
The barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus ) is a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) that is found mainly in the Canadian territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, as well as in Kitaa, Greenland....
The Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) is a subspecies of caribou found in the High Arctic islands of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada. Peary caribou were named after the American explorer Robert Peary. They are called tuktu in...
The Finnish forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) (Finnish: metsäpeura, Russian: лесной северный олень ), also known as European forest reindeer is a rare subspecies of the reindeer native to Finland and northwestern Russia. They are found...
The Queen Charlotte Islands caribou or Dawson's caribou (Rangifer tarandus dawsoni ) is an extinct subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) that once lived on Graham Island, the largest of the Haida Gwaii islands in British...
The mountain reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus ), also called the Norwegian reindeer, northern reindeer, Common reindeer or mountain caribou, is a mid-sized to large subspecies of the reindeer that is native to the western Scandinavian Peninsula,...
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...
