Bernard's wolf

For other uses, see Islands wolf (disambiguation).

Bernard's wolf

Extinct (early 1900s)  (IUCN 3.1)
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. bernardi
Trinomial name
†Canis lupus bernardi
Anderson, 1943
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America
Synonyms[1]
  • Canis lupus banksianus (Anderson, 1943)

Bernard's wolf (Canis lupus bernardi), also known as the Banks Island wolf or the Banks Island tundra wolf,[2] is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was limited to Banks and Victoria Island of the Arctic Archipelago.[3]

  1. ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). 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.
  2. ^ "Elsevier's dictionary of mammals: in Latin, English, German, French and Italian" - Google Books
  3. ^ "The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals" - Google Books