Ovis ammon

– Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

ARTIODACTYLA

Family:

BOVIDAE

Scientific Name:

Ovis ammon

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Ovis ammon ssp. severtzovi

See Ovis ammon ssp. hodgsonii

See Ovis ammon ssp. polii

See Ovis ammon ssp. ammon

See Ovis ammon ssp. jubata

See Ovis ammon ssp. darwini

See Ovis ammon ssp. collium

See Ovis ammon ssp. karelini

See Ovis ammon ssp. nigrimontana

Common Name/s:

English	—	ARGALI
French	—	ARGALI, MOUFLON D'ASIE, MOUFLON D'EURASIE, MOUFLON VRAI
Spanish	—	MUFLÓN ARGAL

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

VU A2cde ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Caprinae Specialist Group

History:

1988

Indeterminate (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Afghanistan; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bhutan; China; Georgia; India; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; Nepal; Pakistan; Russian Federation; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.4	Forest - Temperate
3.4	Shrubland - Temperate
4.1	Grassland - Tundra
4.4	Grassland - Temperate
8.2	Desert - Temperate

Threats

List of Threats:

1	Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (ongoing)
1.1.4	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture - Livestock (ongoing)
3.5	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) - Cultural/scientific/leisure activities (ongoing)
8.1	Changes in native species dynamics - Competitors (ongoing)
9.5	Intrinsic factors - Low densities (ongoing)
10	Human disturbance (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Caprinae Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Shackleton, D.M. (ed.) 1997. Wild Sheep and Goats and their relatives: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Caprinae Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	Caprinae Specialist Group 1996. Ovis ammon. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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