Maguari 15 Oct 2010 Toddy said: Yet we still translate it "moose". Click to expand... Quite rightly, to my mind.
Pygathrix 15 Oct 2010 But in Scotland they have to call it elk otherwise there is confusion with Mus musculus
Ituri 15 Oct 2010 There aren't any Alces alces or Cervus elaphus in North America, we have Alces americanus and Cervus canadensis.
There aren't any Alces alces or Cervus elaphus in North America, we have Alces americanus and Cervus canadensis.
Maguari 15 Oct 2010 Ituri said: There aren't any Alces alces or Cervus elaphus in North America, we have Alces americanus and Cervus canadensis. Click to expand... Oh, we got a troublemaker! For my own purposes I still treat all poulations of Alces as a single species, and canadensis as conspecific with elaphus. But Ive not subjected that to literature review for some time. Short answer, you know very well what I mean!
Ituri said: There aren't any Alces alces or Cervus elaphus in North America, we have Alces americanus and Cervus canadensis. Click to expand... Oh, we got a troublemaker! For my own purposes I still treat all poulations of Alces as a single species, and canadensis as conspecific with elaphus. But Ive not subjected that to literature review for some time. Short answer, you know very well what I mean!
