Extinct subspecies of the gray wolf in southern Alaska
Kenai Peninsula wolf
Conservation status
Extinct (1925) (IUCN 3.1)[1][2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Family:
Canidae
Genus:
Canis
Species:
C. lupus
Subspecies:
†C. l. alces
Trinomial name
†Canis lupus alces
Goldman, 1941[3][4]
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America
The Kenai Peninsula wolf (Canis lupus alces), also known as the Kenai Peninsula grey wolf,[5] is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that lived on the Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska.[6]
^Boitani, L.; Phillips, M.; Jhala, Y. (2018). "Canis lupus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T3746A163508960. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T3746A163508960.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^Charles Bergman (2003). Wild Echoes: Encounters With the Most Endangered Animals in North America. University of Illinois Press. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-0-252-07125-6.
^Goldman, E. A. 1941 Sep 30. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 54: 109.
^"Canis lupus alces Goldman, 1941". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
^Murray Wrobel (2007). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals: In Latin, English, German, French and Italian. Elsevier. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-0-444-51877-4.
^Weckworth, Byron V.; Talbot, Sandra; Sage, George K.; Person, David K.; Cook, Joseph (2005). "A Signal for Independent Coastal and Continental histories among North American wolves" (PDF). Molecular Ecology. 14 (4): 917–31. Bibcode:2005MolEc..14..917W. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02461.x. PMID 15773925. S2CID 12896064.
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