Alces

From Latin alces (“elk”).

• English: IPA^(key): /ˈælsiːz/

Alces f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cervidae – moose.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Artiodactyla – order; Cervidae – family

• (genus): Alces alces – type species; Alces americanus (American moose) – species not universally accepted as distinct from A. alces

• Alces on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alces on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Alces on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Alces at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Alces at AnimalBase
• Alces at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Alces in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Alces at Mammal Diversity Database
• Alces at iNaturalist
• Alces at the Open Tree of Life Web Project
• Alces available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.keːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal̠ʲ.t͡ʃes]

Alcēs m sg (genitive Alcis); third declension

1. a river in Bithynia, mentioned by Pliny

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Alces”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.