The name rangifer , which Linnaeus chose as the name for the reindeer genus , was used by Albertus Magnus in his De animalibus , fol. Liber 22, Cap. 268: "Dicitur Rangyfer quasi ramifer". This word may go back to a Saami word raingo . [ 9 ] For the origin of the word tarandus , which Linnaeus chose as the specific epithet , he made reference to Ulisse Aldrovandi 's Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia fol. 859–863, Cap. 30: De Tarando (1621). However, Aldrovandi – and before him Konrad Gesner [ 10 ] – thought that rangifer and tarandus were two separate animals. [ 11 ] In any case, the tarandos name goes back to Aristotle and Theophrastus – see above. Because of its importance to many cultures, Rangifer tarandus and some of its subspecies have names in many languages. The name rein (-deer) is of Norse origin ( Old Norse hreinn , which again goes back to Proto-Germanic *hrainaz and Proto-Indo-European *kroinos meaning "horned animal"). In the Uralic languages, Sami *poatsoj (in Northern Sami boazu , in Lule Sami boatsoj , in Pite Sami båtsoj , in Southern Sami bovtse ), Mari puc? and Udmurt pudžej , all referring to domesticated reindeer, go back to *pocaw, an Iranian loan word deriving from Proto-Indo-European *pe?u-, meaning "cattle". The Finnish name poro may also stem from the same. [ 12 ] The species taxonomic name Rangifer tarandus (reindeer, caribou, caribou, Reindeer) was defined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The subspecies taxonomic