Labrador wolf

Labrador wolf

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[1]
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. labradorius
Trinomial name
Canis lupus labradorius
Goldman, 1937[2][3]
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America

The Labrador wolf (Canis lupus labradorius) is a subspecies of gray wolf native to Labrador and northern Quebec. It has been described as ranging in color from dark grizzly-gray to almost white,[4] and of being closely related to the Newfoundland wolf (C. l. beothucus).[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. Labrador: S3S4
  2. ^ "Canis lupus labradorius Goldman, 1937". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. ^ Joshua Ross Ginsberg, David Whyte Macdonald & IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group (1990). "Sorting out the Canidae". Foxes, wolves, jackals, and dogs: an action plan for the conservation of canids. International Union for Conservation of Nature. pp. 4–8. ISBN 978-2-88032-996-9.
  4. ^ 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, p. 209.
  5. ^ R. South (31 March 1983). Biogeography and Ecology of the Island of Newfoundland. Springer. pp. 519–. ISBN 978-90-6193-101-0. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference wozencraft2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).