What is the scientific name of Merino Sheep?

I'm just curious, what is the scientific name of Merino Sheep?

What is the scientific name of Merino Sheep?
There are two proposed origins[1] for the Spanish word:





"Merino may be an adaptation to the sheep of the name of a Castilian official inspector (merino) over a merindad, who may have also inspected sheep pastures. This word is from the medieval Latin majorinus, a steward or head official of a village, from major, meaning great.


Merino may from the name of a Berber tribe, the Marini (or in Castilian, Benimerines), which intervened in the Iberian peninsula during the 12th and 13th centuries. "
Reply:Ovis aries is the name for domestic sheep
Reply:All domestic sheep are the same genus species, Orvis aries. There are a listed 112 breeds of sheep. There are 3 known wild species.





Merino Sheep Types


http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep...





Molecular analysis of wild and domestic sheep


questions current nomenclature and provides evidence for domestication from two different subspecies


http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?ei=U...