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The Iberian wolf Canis lupus signatus Cabrera 1907 [2] is classified as Canis lupus lupus by Mammal Species of the World. [5] Some authors claim that the south-eastern Spanish wolf, last sighted in Murcia in the 1930s, was a different subspecies called Canis lupus deitanus. It was even smaller and more reddish in color, without dark spots.
The Iberian wolf was first recognised as a distinct subspecies (Canis lupus signatus) in 1907 by zoologist Ángel Cabrera. The wolves of the Iberian peninsula have morphologically distinct features from other Eurasian wolves and each are considered by their researchers to represent their own subspecies. [134] [135]
signatus (Cabrera, 1907) [2] The Eurasian wolf ( Canis lupus lupus ), also known as the common wolf , [ 3 ] is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia. It was once widespread throughout Eurasia prior to the Middle Ages .
The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America.More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
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In 1907, he proposed that the Iberian wolf was a separate subspecies, which he named Canis lupus signatus. Illustration of Ornithorhynchus anatinus in the book Genera Mammalium (Cabrera, 1919). In 1925 Cabrera went to Argentina and remained there for the rest of his life.
From left to right and from top to bottom: Rupicapra rupicapra, Canis lupus signatus, Martes martes, Ursus arctos, Nyctalus lasiopterus, Erinaceus europaeus, Lepus europaeus, Glis glis and Galemys pyrenaicus.
The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) lives in limited numbers in the northern ranges. An isolated southern population in the Sierra Morena of western Andalucia dwindled in numbers and interbred with dogs, and may now be extinct. [7]