Baffin Island wolf

For other uses, see Islands wolf.

Baffin Island wolf
Illustration based on a description by Edward Alphonso Goldman

Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species:
C. lupus
Subspecies:
C. l. manningi
Trinomial name
Canis lupus manningi
Anderson, 1943 (1908)[2]
Historical and present range of grey wolf subspecies in North America
Synonyms

Canis albus manningi

The Baffin Island wolf (Canis lupus manningi), also known as the Baffin Island tundra wolf,[3] is a subspecies of grey wolf which resides exclusively on Baffin Island and several nearby islands.[4] It was not formally recognized as a subspecies until 1943, when it was given its taxonomic classification by Anderson.[5] This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005).[6]

  1. ^ "Canis lupus". explorer.natureserve.org. Nunavut: S5
  2. ^ "Canis lupus manningi Anderson, 1943". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. ^ Murray Wrobel (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals. Elsevier. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-08-048882-0.
  4. ^ Patrick Hook (1998). Wolves. Random House Value Publishing. ISBN 978-0-517-16082-4.
  5. ^ ""Wolf Facts" – Northern Lights Wildlife". Archived from the original on 2010-02-20. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference wozencraft2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).