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Canis lupus fuscus Richardson, 1839

Cascade Mountains brown wolf

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

Last record: c.1950 (Day, 1981)

 

Distribution

"British Columbia south to Washington state"

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

Mech, L. David. (1974). Canis lupus. Mammalian Species 37: 1-6, 5 figs.

Pisano, Robert. (1979). Does the Cascade Wolf Survive? Oryx 15(2): 185-190.

 

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