Alaskan tundra wolf

Not to be confused with the Tundra Wolf (Eurasian subspecies).

Alaskan tundra wolf
C. l. tundrarum, Lobo Park, Antequera, Spain

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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. tundrarum
Trinomial name
Canis lupus tundrarum
Miller, 1912[2]
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America

The Alaskan tundra wolf (Canis lupus tundrarum), also known as the barren-ground wolf,[3] is a North American subspecies of gray wolf native to the barren grounds of the Arctic coastal tundra region. It was named in 1912 by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr., who noted that it closely approaches the Great Plains wolf in skull and tooth morphology, though possessing a narrower rostrum and palate.[4] It is a large, white-colored wolf closely resembling C. l. pambasileus, though lighter in color.[5] This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005).[6]

  1. ^ "Canis lupus". explorer.natureserve.org.
  2. ^ "Canis lupus tundrarum Miller, 1912". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
  3. ^ Glover, A. (1942), Extinct and vanishing mammals of the western hemisphere, with the marine species of all the oceans, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, pp. 226-227
  4. ^ Miller, G. S. (1913), The names of the large wolves of northern and western North America, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 59, no. 15
  5. ^ Mech, L. David (1981), The Wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species, University of Minnesota Press, p. 353, ISBN 0-8166-1026-6
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference wozencraft2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).