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Reindeer - Rangifer tarandus - Rendier
Northern Eurasia and North America.
The following 14 subspecies are being recognized:
Rangifer tarandus tarandus - arctic tundra of the Fennoscandian peninsula (Norway);
Rangifer tarandus fennicus - woodland of Northwest-Russia and Finland;
Rangifer tarandus plathyrhynchus - arctic islands of Svalbard archipelago (Norway);
Rangifer tarandus pearsoni - Novaya Zemblya archipelago (Russia);
Rangifer tarandus sibiricus - tundras of Sibiria (Russia);
Rangifer tarandus buskensis - woodlands of Russia;
Rangifer tarandus valentinae - forest of the Ural Mountains (Russia) and Altai Mountains (Mongolia);
Rangifer tarandus phylarchus - Kamchatka peninsula and regions bordering Sea of Okhotsk (Russia);
Rangifer tarandus granti - tundra of Alaska (USA) and Yukon (Canada);
Rangifer tarandus osbornii - woodland of British Colombia (Canada);
Rangifer tarandus dawsoni - formerly Queen Charlotte Islands archipelago off British Colombia (Canada). Extinct in 1908;
Rangifer tarandus terraenovae - Newfoundland (Canada);
Rangifer tarandus caboti - tundras of Quebec and Labrador (Canada);
Rangifer tarandus caribou - forest of Southern-Canada and Northwest-USA;
Rangifer tarandus pearyi - high arctic islands of Nunavut and Northwest-Territories (Canada);
Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus - high arctic islands of Nunavut and Northwest-Territories (Canada) and West-Greenland;
Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus - formerly East-Greenland. Extinct in 1900.
Of this species there are no Nature photo's available.