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East Siberian brown bear Russian: Восто́чно-Сиби́рский бурый медведь | |
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Brown bear with slaty-backed gulls at Magadan Nature Reserve, Russia. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Genus: | Ursus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | U. a. collaris
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Trinomial name | |
Ursus arctos collaris F. G. Cuvier, 1824
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Synonyms | |
jeniseensis Ognev, 1924 |
The East Siberian brown bear (Ursus arctos collaris) is a population or subspecies of brown bear which ranges from eastern Siberia, beginning at the Yenisei river, north to the Arctic Circle, as far as Trans-Baikaliya, the Stanovoy Range, the Lena River, Kolyma and generally throughout Yakutia and the Altai Mountains. The subspecies is also present in northern Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, and eastern Kazakhstan.[2]