Northwestern wolf

Not to be confused with Interior Alaskan wolf.

Northwestern wolf
Canis lupus occidentalis
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene–Holocene
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C. l. occidentalis at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center at West Yellowstone, Montana.

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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. occidentalis
Trinomial name
Canis lupus occidentalis
Synonyms[4]
  • ater (Richardson, 1829)[3]
  • sticte (Richardson, 1829)[3]

The northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), also known as the Mackenzie Valley wolf,[5] Alaskan timber wolf,[6] or Canadian timber wolf,[7] is a subspecies of gray wolf in western North America. Arguably the largest gray wolf subspecies in the world, it ranges from Alaska, the upper Mackenzie River Valley; southward throughout the western Canadian provinces, aside from prairie landscapes in its southern portions, as well as the Northwestern United States.[6]

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  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference richardson1829 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b 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. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Mech, L. David (1970), The wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species, Natural History Press, ISBN 978-0-307-81913-0
  6. ^ a b Mech, L. David (1981), The wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species, University of Minnesota Press, p. 352, ISBN 0-8166-1026-6
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Chambers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).