Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Expert:
Peter Grubb
Notes:
35 Downhills Park Road, London N17 6PE, England
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Source(s):
Source:
NODC Taxonomic Code
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1987-01-01 / 1987-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Resource Publication, no. 166
Page(s):
79
Publisher:
United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C., USA
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2000-01-01 / 2000-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Common Names of Mammals of the World
Page(s):
xiv + 204
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-383-3/
Notes:
With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
Page(s):
2000
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2003-03-31 / 2003-03-31
Article/Chapter Title:
OPINION 2027 (Case 3010): Usage of 17 specific names based on wild species which are pre-dated by or contemporary with those based on domestic animals (Lepidoptera, Osteichthyes, Mammalia): conserved
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 60, part 1
Page(s):
81-84
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0007-5167
Notes:
Available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34357823
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Bennett, Deb, and Robert S. Hoffmann
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1999-12-03 / 1999-12-03
Article/Chapter Title:
Equus caballus
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammalian Species, no. 628
Page(s):
1-14
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/1545-1410
Notes:
Available online at http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/default.html
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Gentry, Anthea, Juliet Clutton-Brock, and Colin P. Groves
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2004-01-01 / 2004-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
The naming of wild animal species and their domestic derivatives
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 31
Page(s):
645-651
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0305-4403
Notes:
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Groves, Colin, and Peter Grubb
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2011-01-01 / 2011-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Ungulate Taxonomy
Page(s):
ix + 317
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-4214-0093-6/
Notes:
Reference for:
Equus caballus
Equus caballus: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Australia
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Canada / Introduced
Equus caballus: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Reviewed by Bennett and Hoffman (1999, Mammalian Species, 628). Recent caballine horses have been assigned to two different species, E. caballus (or ferus) and E. przewalskii, but many authors now include przewalskii in caballus; see Corbet (1978c:194), Groves (1974a), Bennett (1980), and Bennett and Hoffman (1999). Gromov and Baranova (1981:333-334) continued to recognize two species, gmelini (= ferus) and przewalskii. Groves (1971b) and Corbet (1978c:194) proposed that ferus (the Tarpan) ...
Comment:
See Groves & Grubb (2011: 8 & 13). The diverse origins of domestic horses are discussed, the scientific name applicable to the domestic horses, as a species, is provided, and it is noted that it is believed to be derived from Equus ferus