Ursus arctos californicus Merriam, 1896
California brown bear, California grizzly (bear), Golden bear
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ursus californicus Merriam, 1896
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: 1933 (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1973)
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
MCZ 41998
USNM 156594
Media
References
Alagona, Peter S. (2013). After the Grizzly Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California. University of California Press. 341 pp.
Dixon, Joseph Scattergood. (1916). Does the Grizzly Bear Still Exist in California? California Fish and Game 2(2): 65-69.
Brown, David E. (1985). The Grizzly in the Southwest: Documentary of an Extinction. University of Oklahoma Press. 280 pp.
DeVincenzi, Garibaldi, J. (1916). Does the grizzly bear still exist in California? California Fish and Game 2(2): 5 pp., 4 figs.
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.
Grinnell, Joseph. (1938). California's Grizzly Bears. Sierra Club Bulletin 23(2): 70-81.
Hittell, Theodore H. (1860). The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California. San Francisco: Towne and Bacon.
Muir, J. (1898). Among the animals of the Yosemite. The Atlantic.
Secrest, William B. (2008). California's Day of the Grizzly: The Exciting, Tragic Story of the Mighty California Grizzly. Word Dancer Press.
Snyder, Susan (ed.). (2003). Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly. California: Heyday Books.
Storer, T. J. and Tevis, L. P. Jr. (1955). California Grizzly. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. 335 pp.
Storer, T. J. and Tevis, L. P. Jr. (1996). California Grizzly. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. 382 pp.
Wooldridge, T. Brock et al. (2025). Genomic data from the extinct California brown bear suggests a source population for reintroduction to California. Journal of Heredity, esaf018. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf018
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/7410/california-grizzly-bear
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/bearinmind/