Kamchatka brown bear

Kamchatka brown bear
Russian: камчатский бурый медведь

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[2] (Kuril Islands)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species:
U. arctos
Subspecies:
U. a. beringianus
Trinomial name
Ursus arctos beringianus
Middendorff, 1851
Ursus arctos beringianus range map.
Synonyms

kolymensis Ognev, 1924
mandchuricus Heude, 1898
piscator Pucheran, 1855

The Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus), also known as the Far Eastern brown bear, or in Russian: камчатский бурый медведь, romanized: kamchatsky bury medved, is a subspecies of brown bear native to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

  1. ^ Facility, Global Environment (2 May 2011). Defying Extinction. Global Environment Facility. ISBN 9781884122972.
  2. ^ "IUCN Brown Bear subspecies status". Retrieved August 29, 2022.