Ursinae
Ursinae | |
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A brown bear (Ursus arctos) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Subfamily: | Ursinae |
Genera | |
See text. |
Ursinae is a subfamily of Ursidae (bears) named by Swainson (1835) though probably named before Hunt 1998. It was assigned to Ursidae by Bjork (1970), Hunt (1998) and Jin et al. (2007).[1][2][3]
Classification
The genera Melursus and Helarctos are sometimes also included in Ursus. The Asiatic black bear and the polar bear used to be placed in their own genera, Selenarctos and Thalarctos; these are now placed at subgenus rank.
- Subfamily Ursinae (G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817)
- Ursus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- †Ursus boeckhi (Schlosser, 1899)
- †Ursus yinanensis (Li, 1993)
- †Ursus theobaldi (Lydekker, 1884)
- Ursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791) – Sloth Bear
- †Ursus minimus (Devèze & Bouillet, 1827)
- Ursus malayanus (Raffles, 1821) – Sun Bear
- Ursus thibetanus (G. Cuvier, 1823) – Asiatic Black Bear
- †Ursus abstrusus (Bjork, 1970)
- Ursus americanus (Pallas, 1780) – American Black Bear
- †Ursus etruscus (Cuvier, 1823)
- †Ursus deningeri (Richenau, 1904)
- †Ursus kudarensis (Baryshnikov, 1985)
- †Ursus rossicus (Borissiak, 1930)
- †Ursus ingressus (Rabeder, Hofreiter, Nagel & Withalm 2004)
- †Ursus deningeri (Richenau, 1904)
- †Ursus spelaeus (Rosenmüller, 1794)
- Ursus maritimus (Phipps, 1774) – Polar bear
- Ursus arctos (Linnaeus, 1758) – Brown bear
- Ursus (Linnaeus, 1758)
A number of hybrids have been bred between American black, brown, and polar bears (see Ursid hybrids).
References
- ↑ Bjork, Philip R. (1970). "The Carnivora of the Hagerman Local Fauna (Late Pliocene) of Southwestern Idaho". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society. 60 (7): 3–54. JSTOR 1006119.
- ↑ Hunt, R. M. (1998). "Ursidae". In Jacobs, Louis; Janis, Christine M.; Scott, Kathleen L. Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 174–195. ISBN 0-521-35519-2.
- ↑ Jin, C; Ciochon, RL; Dong, W; Hunt Jr, RM; Liu, J; Jaeger, M; Zhu, Q (2007). "The first skull of the earliest giant panda". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (26): 10932–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704198104. PMC 1904166. PMID 17578912.
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