Alces alces
Appearance
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin alces (“elk, moose”).
Proper noun
[edit]- A taxonomic species within the family Cervidae – a large, northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in a male; called elk in Europe and moose in North America (unless North American members of genus Alces are treated as a separate species Alces americanus).
Hypernyms
[edit]- (species): Artiodactyla – order; Cervidae – family; Capreolinae or Odocoileinae – subfamily; Alces – genus
Hyponyms
[edit]- (species): Alces alces alces, Alces alces caucasicus – subspecies[1]
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (species): Alces americanus – species[1]
References
[edit]Moose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Alces alces on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Alces alces on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Alces alces at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Alces_alces at Animal Diversity Web
- Alces alces at AnimalBase
- Alces alces at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alces alces in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.