Skulls of various wolf subspecies from North AmericaPresent and historical range of wild subspecies of C. lupus. This map uses the more broadly defined North American subspecies of Nowak (1995),[1][2] but see also the map under the section titled North America.
There are 38 subspecies of Canis lupus listed in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005, 3rd edition). These subspecies were named over the past 250 years, and since their naming, a number of them have gone extinct. The nominate subspecies is the Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus).
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