Odobenus rosmarus

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Animalia — Chordata

Subphylum : Vertebrata 
Classis : Mammalia 
Ordo : Carnivora 
Superfamilia : Pinnipedia 
Familia : Odobenidae 
Genus : Odobenus 
Brisson, 1762
Species : O. rosmarus 

Odobenus rosmarus 
Linnaeus, 1758  

Conservationis status

DD

Status parum cognitus (IUCN 3.1)

Territorium

Odobenus rosmarus, communi Latinitate recentiori "ros marus piscis", est species mammalium cuius duae subspecies, videlicet O. r. rosmarus et O. r. divergens, in partibus borealibus oceanorum Atlantici et Pacifici aquisque adiacentibus oceani Arctici habitant.

Odobenus nomen e vocabulis Graecis ὀδούς et βαίνω compositum est, quasi dentibus progrediens; nam dentibus longe prominentibus haerens odobenus saepe e mari in litus vel in saxa proserpit. Alexander Guagnini saeculo sedecimo odobenum nomine Polonico mors nominat et ut monstrum fabulosum describit.

Bibliographia

"Ros marus piscis" in tabula marina saec. XVI pictus

• James H. Barrett et al., "Ecological globalisation, serial depletion and the medieval trade of walrus rostra." Quaternary Science Reviews 229 (Decembri 2019).
• Karin M. Frei et al., "Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland." World Archaeology 47 (2015): 439–66.
• Xénia Keighley et al., "Disappearance of Icelandic walruses coincided with Norse settlement." Molecular Biology and Evolution msz196 (12 Septembris 2019).
• Elizabeth Pierce, "Walrus Hunting and the Ivory Trade in Early Iceland." Archaeologia Islandica 7 (2009): 55–63.
• Bastiaan Star et al., "Ancient DNA reveals the chronology of walrus ivory trade from Norse Greenland." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, no. 1884 (Augusto 2018). alibi.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Odobenum rosmarum spectant.