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Canis lupus nubilus Say in Long, 1823:169

Great Plains lobo wolf, Buffalo wolf, Appalachian gray wolf, Timber wolf

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Canis nubilis Say, 1823; Canis mexicanus nubilus Say, 1823

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1926 (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1973); c.1926 (Day, 1981)

Rediscovered

 

Distribution

Texas, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Say, T. (1823). Account of an expedition . . under the command of Maj. S. H. Long (E. James, compiler). Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, vol. 1, 503 pp., vol. 2, 442 pp. 


Other references:

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

Genoways, Hugh G. (2021). Holocene Records of Nebraska Mammals. Zea Books. 89 pp.

Goodwin, Harry A. and Goodwin, J. M. (1973). List of mammals which have become extinct or are possibly extinct since 1600. Int. Union Conserv. Nat. Occas. Pap. 8: 1-20.

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

Osborn, Herbert F. (1905). The Recently Extinct and Vanishing Animals of Iowa. The Annals of Iowa 6(8): 561-570.

Rhoads, 1894, American Naturalist, 28: 524.

Rhoads, Samuel N. (1903). The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey... Philadelphia: Self published. [pp. 148-156]

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