Cascade mountain wolf

Cascade mountain wolf
Illustration based on a description by Edward Alphonso Goldman
Extinct  (1940)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Family:Canidae
Genus:Canis
Species: C. lupus
Subspecies: †C. l. fuscus
Trinomial name
Canis lupus fuscus
Richardson 1839[1]
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America
Synonyms[2]
  • gigas (Townsend, 1850)

The Cascade mountain wolf (Canis lupus fuscus) is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once found in British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington.[3] The wolf became extinct in 1940.[3] It was originally identified as a separate species by Richardson in 1839[4] and from other wolves in the area by Edward Goldman in 1945.[5] This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005).[6] It was described as a cinnamon coloured wolf measuring 165 cm and weighing 36–49 kg.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Canis lupus fuscus Richardson, 1839" – ITIS Report
  2. ↑ Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. 1 2 Charles Bergman (2003). Wild Echoes: Encounters With the Most Endangered Animals in North America. University of Illinois Press. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-0-252-07125-6.
  4. ↑ Joshua Ross Ginsberg; David David Whyte Macdonald (1990). Foxes, Wolves, Jackals, and Dogs: An Action Plan for the Conservation of Canids. IUCN. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-2-88032-996-9.
  5. ↑ Barry Lopez (2004). Of Wolves and Men. Simon and Schuster. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-0-7432-4936-2.
  6. ↑ Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 575–577. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA576
  7. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Vanished Species by David Day, Universe Books ltd. 1981. ISBN 0-947889-30-2
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