Life Mammalia Carnivora Ursidae

• Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 NEU, Siberia, Rocky Mountains - New Mexico, Pyrenees, Himalayas, Tibet. See [maps] Karhu Brown Bear

  • Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758; ; TL: Sweden
  • cadaverinus
  • fuscus
  • normalis (Gray)
  • ursus
  • albus
  • alpinus
  • annulatus
  • argenteus
  • aureus
  • badius
  • baikalensis ; (L. Baikal)
  • beringiana ; (Shantar Is., E.Siberia)
  • bosniensis
  • brunneus
  • cavifrons
  • collaris ; (Siberia)
  • ?euryrhinus
  • eversmanni
  • falciger
  • ferox (Temminck)
  • formicarius
  • fuscus (Gmelin)
  • grandis
  • griseus
  • jeniseensis ; (Upper Yenesei)
  • kolymensis ; (NE.Siberia)
  • lasiotus ; (N.China)
  • longirostis
  • major
  • mandchuricus ; (Vladivostock)
  • marsaricus
  • melanarctos
  • minor
  • myrmephagus
  • niger
  • norvegicus
  • piscator ; (Kamchatka)
  • polonicus
  • pyrenaicus
  • rossicus
  • rufus
  • scandinavicus
  • sibiricus
  • stenorostris
  • yesoensis ; (Hokkaido, Japan)
  • arctos syriacus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828); ; TL: Lebanon (extinct)
  • caucasicus
  • dinniki
  • lasistanicus
  • ?meridionalis ; (Caucasus)
  • persicus ; (N. Iran)
  • schmitzi ; (Palestine)
  • smirnovi
  • arctos isabellinus (Horsfield, 1826); ; TL: Nepal
  • leuconyx ; (Tien Shan)
  • pamirensis ; (Pamirs)
  • arctos pruinosus (Blyth, 1854); (Tibet)
  • lagomyiarius
  • arctos crowtheri (Schinz, 1844); ; TL: Altlas Mts. NW. Africa (extinct)
  • arctos ?shanorum (Thomas, 1844)
  • horribilis (Ord, 1815); (NA)

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