genus Alces

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genus Alces - elk or moose

Alces

mammal genus - a genus of mammals

Cervidae, family Cervidae - deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer

Alces alces, elk, European elk, moose - large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America

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A review of the living representatives of the genus Alces. Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology and Palaentology 34.

STATUS AND TRENDS OF MOOSE POPULATIONS AND HUNTING OPPORTUNITY IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

Lydekker (1898) questioned Scott's original designation of the New Jersey and Kentucky material as Cervalces americanus due to its similarity to the genus Alces, and noted that the name Cervus americanus was preoccupied.

Probable cervical vertebra of an extinct Ice Age elkmoose dredged from the inner continental shelf of central New Jersey, USA

The genus Alces first appears in the fossil record 2 million years ago (Thouveny and Bonifay 1984) and fossils attributable to A.