Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Eutheria > Order Artiodactyla > Family Cervidae > Genus Alces

Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cervus Linnaeus, 1758

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Genus group names

*Alces*	Gray, 1821	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: Elg sources: danish PESI focal point

English: Eurasian Elk sources: english PESI focal point

Greek: Άλκη sources: Greek PESI focal point

Hebrew: איל הקורא sources: Hebrew PESI focal point

Lithuanian: briedis sources: Lithuanian PESI focal point

Norwegian Bokmål: elg sources: Systema Naturae, 10th ed., 1:66

Norwegian Nynorsk: elg sources: Systema Naturae, 10th ed., 1:66

Russian: лось sources: Russian PESI focal point

Slovenian: los sources: Slovenian PESI focal point

Spanish, Castillian: Alce sources: spanish PESI focal point

Swedish: älg

Turkish: Kanada ren geyiği; Sığın sources: Turkish PESI focal point

Ukrainian: Лось європейський

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Citation

Prof. Dr. Wieslaw Bogdanowicz. Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/29d8f33f-e445-42b7-b711-3d35b2b7d1ae

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