East Siberian brown bear

East Siberian brown bear
Russian: Восто́чно-Сиби́рский бурый медведь
Brown bear with slaty-backed gulls at Magadan Nature Reserve, Russia.

Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1] (Altai Mountains and Kazakhstan)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species:
Subspecies:
U. a. collaris
Trinomial name
Ursus arctos collaris
F. G. Cuvier, 1824
Synonyms

jeniseensis Ognev, 1924
sibiricus J. E. Gray, 1864

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]

  1. ^ "IUCN Brown Bear subspecies status". Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  2. ^ "East Siberian brown bear". Bear Conservation. 2023-07-15. Archived from the original on 2023-07-15. Retrieved 2023-07-17.