Odobenus rosmarus

Odobenus rosmarus, communi Latinitate recentiori "ros marus piscis",^[1] 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.

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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 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.^[2]

Notae

1. "Ros marus piscis": Olaus Magnus, vide imaginem nostram.
2. Alexandri Guagnini Moscoviae descriptio in Historiae Ruthenicae scriptoribus, Berolini et Petropoli 1841.

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.

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