It was possibly introduced to Cyprus during the Neolithic period. The mouflon occurs in southeastern Turkey, southern Armenia, southern Azerbaijan, Cyprus, northern Iraq, western southern and Iran. ( October 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
This section needs additional citations for verification. If the urial is as closely related to the mouflons as mitochondrial DNA indicates, then two chromosomes would need to have split during its evolution away from the mouflon (sub)species. This is in contrast to the argali and urial, which have 56 and 58 chromosomes respectively. Mouflon and domestic sheep have 54 chromosomes, with three pairs (1+3, 2+8, 5+11) of ancestral acrocentric chromosomes joined to form bi-armed chromosomes. The ancestral sheep is presumed to have had 60 chromosomes, as in goats ( Capra). bochariensis, grouped with two different clades of argali ( Ovis ammon). However, a comparison of the mitochondrial DNA control region (CR) found that two subspecies of urial, Ovis vignei (or orientalis) arkal and O. Relation to other sheep īased on comparison of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences, three groups of sheep ( Ovis) have been identified: Pachyceriforms of Siberia ( snow sheep) and North America ( bighorn and Dall sheep), Argaliforms ( argali) of Central Asia, and Moufloniforms ( urial, mouflon, and domestic sheep) of Eurasia. The European mouflon was once thought to be a subspecies of the mouflon, but is now considered to be a feral descendant of the domestic sheep ( Ovis aries), as Ovis aries musimon. The television show Born to Explore with Richard Wiese reported 3,000 individuals on Cyprus. In 1997, about 1,200 individuals were counted. ophion (Blyth, 1841): also called agrino (from the Greek Αγρινό) nearly driven to extinction during the 20th century. laristanica (Nasonov, 1909): a small subspecies, its range is restricted to some desert reserves near Lar in southern Iran. isphahanica (Nasonov, 1910): Zagros Mountains, Iran. It has been introduced to Texas in the U.S. gmelini (Blyth, 1851): nominate subspecies native to northwestern Iran, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Armenian mouflon (Armenian red sheep), O.įive mouflon subspecies of are distinguished by MSW3: Ovis orientalis isphahanica by Nasonov in 1910 for wild sheep in the Zagros Mountains.Ovis laristanica by Nikolai Nasonov in 1909 for wild sheep in Lar in southern Iran.Ovis ophion by Blyth in 1841 for wild sheep in Cyprus.In the 19th and 20th centuries, several wild sheep were described that are considered mouflon subspecies today:
Ovis gmelini was the scientific name proposed by Edward Blyth in 1841 for wild sheep in the Middle East.
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