Ursus arctos crowtheri Schinz, 1844:302
Atlas bear, Atlas brown bear
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ursus crowtheri Schinz, 1844; Ursus arctos faidherbi Bourguignat, 1867
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1841 (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1973); Mid-1800's (Hamdine et al. 1998)?
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Atlas Mountains (Algeria, Morocco & Tunisia)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Schinz, Heinrich Rudolf. (1844-1845). Systematisches Verzeichniss aller bis jetzt bekannten Säugethiere ; oder, Synopsis Mammalium nach dem Cuvier'schen System. Solothurn, Jent und Gassmann 1: 302.
Other references:
Aucapitaine, Henri. (1860). Sur la question de l’existence d’ours dans les montagnes de l’Afrique Septentrionale. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences 50: 655-656.
Blyth, Edward. (1841). Letter from Edward Blyth. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 9 : 65 (August 10).
Bourguignat, Jules-René. (1867). Note sur un Ursus nouveau découvert dans la grande caverne du Thaya (province de Constantine). Annales des Sciences Naturelles 8: 41-51.
Bourguignat, Jules-René. (1870). Histoire du Djebel-Thaya et des ossements fossiles recueilles dans la grande Caverne de la Mosquée. Paris: Challamel Ainé.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Dobson, M. (1998). Mammal distributions in the western Mediterranean: the role of human intervention. Mammal Review 28(2): 77-88.
Downes, Jonathan. (1994). The only bear in Africa? Animals & Men 2: 27.
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.
Hamdine, Watik, Thevenot, Michel and Michaux, Jacques. (1998). Recent history of the brown bear in the Maghreb. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III: Sciences de la Vie 321(7): 565-570. [Abstract]
Manlius, N. (1998). L’Ours brun en Égypte [The brown bear of Egypt]. Écologie 29: 565-581.
McLellan, B.N., Servheen, C. & Huber, D. (2008). Ursus arctos. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 15 October 2011.