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It was described by Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Schneider in 1801, [9] originally under the lizardfish genus Synodus.The species was first placed in Erythrinus in 1854 by Gray (under the name Erythrinus salmoneus, a junior synonym of Erythrinus erythrinus), and this treatment has been recognized by recent authorities such as Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa in 2003.
Red wolves were once distributed throughout the southeastern and south-central United States from the Atlantic Ocean to central Texas, southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Illinois in the west, and in the north from the Ohio River Valley, northern Pennsylvania, southern New York, and extreme southern Ontario in Canada [2] south to the Gulf of Mexico. [14]
The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long-awaited population viability analysis released Friday. The ...
Some scientists consider Eastern wolves and red wolves to be subspecies of gray wolves or hybrids of gray wolves and coyotes. — Gregory R. Gregory: Thank you for your letter.
The Atlantic wolffish was first formally described in 1758 in the 10th edition of the Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus with its type locality given as the "northern English Ocean". [5] When Linnaeus described it he classified it within the monotypic genus Anarhichas so today A. lupus is the type species of that genus. [ 6 ]
1969: The first red wolf is captured and brought into captivity at Tacoma, Washington’s, Port Defiance Zoo. The zoo would start a breeding program and eventually house 14 wolves.
The April 26 birth of a female American red wolf pup named Otter was followed by a litter of three other pups — Molly and her brothers Finn and Obi — on May 4, the St. Louis Zoo announced Monday.
The red wolf is an enigmatic taxon, of which there are two proposals over its origin. One is that the red wolf is a distinct species (C. rufus) that has undergone human-influenced admixture with coyotes. The other is that it was never a distinct species but was derived from past admixture between coyotes and gray wolves, due to the gray wolf ...