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minor (Ogerien, 1863) niger (Hermann, 1804) orientalis (Wagner, 1841) orientalis (Dybowski, 1922) 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 domestic dog is a divergent subspecies of the gray wolf and was derived from an extinct population of Late Pleistocene wolves. [8] [31] [32] Through selective pressure and selective breeding, the domestic dog has developed into hundreds of varied breeds and shows more behavioral and morphological variation than any other land mammal. [33]
The wolf (Canis lupus; [ b ]pl.: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey 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 gray wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
The Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos), also known as the white wolf, polar wolf, and the Arctic grey wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Island to Ellesmere Island. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Unlike some populations that move between tundra and forest regions, [ 5 ] Arctic wolves ...
The Great Plains wolf (Canis lupus nubilus), also known as the buffalo wolf or loafer, is a subspecies of gray wolf that once extended throughout the Great Plains, from southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada southward to northern Texas in the United States. [ 5 ] The subspecies was thought to be extinct in 1926, until studies declared ...
The wolf was extirpated from Mexico in the 1970s, when the U.S. and Mexican governments cooperated to capture all remaining wild Mexican wolves and initiate a captive-breeding program in an attempt to save the local subspecies. [147] The Mexican Wolf was reintroduced into the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona in 1998 as part of a ...
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 ...
The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus, [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 1 ][ 4 ] or Canis lupus lupus, [ 5 ] Spanish and Portuguese: Lobo ibérico), [ 6 ] is a subspecies of grey wolf. It inhabits the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, which includes northwestern Spain and northern Portugal. It is home to 2,200-2,700 wolves which have been isolated from mixing ...