Order Artiodactyla Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 315 343 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352976 d2154b0a-e0b7-4b56-bb6c-61d84ce4d9e1 0-89327-235-3 7352976 Bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:71 . REVIEWED BY: D. Van Vuren (DVV); M. S. Rich (MSR); J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP). TYPE LOCALITY: " Mexico " (= C. Kansas ,"Quivera"); redesignated as Canadian River valley, E. New Mexico ( U.S.A. ) . DISTRIBUTION: Formerly N.W. and C. Canada , south through U.S.A. , to Chihuahua , Coahuila ( Mexico ). COMMENT: Exterminated in wild except in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming ( U.S.A. ) and Wood Buffalo Park, Northwest Terr. ( Canada ). Reintroduced widely within native range; also C. Alaska. See Hershkovitz, 1957, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 79:31-32 for discussion of " Mexico " type locality. See MacDonald, 1981, North American Bison , their classification and evolution, Univ. California Press, Berkeley, p. 62 for redesignation of type locality. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as B. b. athabascae subspecies only. ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009001001001.