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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